guiding youth in a connected world by chris rider executive director, byte
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About BYTEOur Mission:
“To unlock potential through youth empowerment”
• Founded in Whitehorse in 1998.• Focused on experiential workshop programming for Northern Youth.• We travel to each Yukon Community at least once per year.• Workshops include Leadership, Safe Partying, Digital Citizenship &
Ending Bullying.• We also run youth-focused events.
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Online bullying
• 89% of students report that “online meanness or cruelty” is rarely or never a problem for them.
• 72% of students report that they can go to their parents for a solution when there is an issue.
Source: Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III MediaSmarts © 2015
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Sexting• Only 8% of students from grades 4-11 have ever sent a sext to
someone.
• 4% have forwarded a sext that they have received to somebody else.
• Resources exist to help youth remove photographs, such as www.needhelpnow.ca.
Source: Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III MediaSmarts © 2015
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Yukon Statistics
Source: Health and Health Related Behaviours Among Young People in Yukon – 2015‐
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Yukon Statistics (cont.)
Source: Health and Health Related Behaviours Among Young People in Yukon – 2015‐
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Why do young people bully?
Question:
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“Sticks & Stones
may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.”
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Thanks for Listening
Please keep in touch! • www.yukonyouth.com• [email protected]
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Brief reading List• Teenagers are still developing empathy skills (article):
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304561004579137514122387446
• Empathy & the Brain (article):http://www.parentingscience.com/empathy-and-the-brain.html
The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction (article):• http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-still-under-construction/
index.shtml •
Bully Nation, by Dr. Susan Porter (book):http://www.amazon.ca/Bully-Nation-Americas-Childhood-Aggression/dp/1557789045
• Sticks & Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, by Emily Bazelon (book):http://www.amazon.ca/Sticks-Stones-Defeating-Rediscovering-Character/dp/0812992806
• BYTE University (Northern Youth Facilitation Guide):http://www.yukonyouth.com/byte-university/