Lorena Norwood's Contact Details

Lorena Norwood's Company Details

HeartWood Centre for Community Youth Development

Halifax, N/A, CA • 5 - 9 Employees
Non-Profit

HeartWood Centre for Community Youth Development is a non-profit, registered charity that has been serving the province of Nova Scotia since 1988.We believe that young people possess the passion, skills and insight to be powerful community leaders. We work directly with youth, adults, youth-serving organizations and broader systems to build better communities through youth engagement and leadership. Our programming focuses on creating a culture of empowerment and support through youth-adult partnerships, peer relationships, meaningful contributions and experiential learning. We offer three streams of programming, aimed at:- Helping youth to positively engage in their communities (through systems, services and organizations); and develop their skills and capacity to take action and make change;- Training and coaching adults in youth engagement strategies and tools;- Working directly with larger systems over an extended period of time to improve their youth engagement strategies and inform their policies to better serve youth