During the month of February, Aunt Leah’s Society will be having a number of guest speakers come to our ILFFY workshops and speak with our youth about Legal Resources available to them in the community. We are excited to welcome back Jim Mandelin from the John Howard Society and look forward to new presenters from Cameray Child and Family Services and Pivot Legal Resources.

In Hearing the Voices of Children and Youth, Representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond and Ombudsperson Kim Carter point out ways in which the Ministry of Children and Family Development can make its complaint process more accessible and responsive to the vulnerable young people it serves. They identify seven opportunities for the government to improve the process.

The theme for our January 2010 ILFFY workshops was Sexual Health and Wellness. We had a variety of presenters come to Aunt Leah’s and educate our youth about Safer Sex, Harm Reduction, and Sexually Transmitted Infections. The highlight of the month was the Trivia Night hosted by YouthCo AIDS Society, which motivated our youth to demonstrate their knowledge on Sexual Health topics and allowed us to learn even more about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.