Whats New With Crave this November;
On Friday November 7th 2008 Crave launched the tobacco free sports tool kit. We launched it at the Oakville YMCA. We invited many representatives from the Halton Regional Health Department as well as students who are highly involved with their athletic councils. Chelsea and Danielle gave a presentation on Crave’s successful tobacco free sports event. Kendra, a representative from the Halton Region walked everyone through the tool kit explaining in depth how it is to be used. After we finished up our launch Larissa came in to train us on Creative Ways to Advocate. It was a very useful training and we will use it in the future.
On Sunday December 7th 2008 crave will be participating in Burlington’s Santa Claus Parade. We will be sharing our key messages; “The chimney should be the only thing smoking around the children this holiday season”. As well as wishing everyone happy holidays from Crave.
Here are the songs that were on the CD we made for everyone at Teen Ranch;
DISC ONE:
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Warning Sign Coldplay
Good People - Jack Johnson
Fix You - Coldplay
So Damn Lucky - Dave Matthews
I Want You to Want Me - Cheap Trick
Runnin’ Down a Dream - Tom Petty
Get Back - The Beatles
Trampled Under Foot - Led Zeppelin
Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan Dylan Folk
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
You’ve Got to Stand for Something – Aaron Tippin
Some Country
Love Story - Taylor Swift
DISC TWO:
Troublemaker Weezer
Banquet Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Neighborhood #3 - Arcade Fire Funeral
Paper Planes - M.I.A
Just Dance - Lady GaGa & Colby O’Donis
Don’t Stop the Music - Rihanna
The Way I Are (feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E.) - Timbaland
Viva La Vida – Coldplay
Love Lockdown - Kanye
Beat Goes On - Madonna Feat
Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna) – T.I.
So What - P!nk
Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis
No Air - Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown
Space Bird (Dubfire Deep Space Remix) - System 7 Space Bird
Crave’s Tobacco Free Sports Tournament
On September 13th and 14th crave participated in the Oakville Soccer Cup running a tobacco free sports event. We partnered with the Oakville soccer club creating a positive ally. It was a boys and girl’s youth end of the year tournament. We set up our booth in the front entrance of the main field. There many youth there along with their parents and siblings. We handed out promotional items such as; mini soccer balls, puzzles and frisbees. As well we asked youth over the age of thirteen and there parents to fill out a community readiness survey in order to gage how supportive they were of the issue of tobacco use in sports and recreation. In return for filling out a community readiness survey we gave parents and youth thunder sticks and t-shirts displaying our key messages. A few of our key messages for this event were “Don’t fall for the tobacco industries trick plays” as well as “Tobacco free sports is another piece of protective equipment.” Our key messages were developed through the Central West Youth Coalition as this was a central west wide event. That means that groups like crave from across central western Ontario held events like ours. This was a very successful event and we hope to partner with the Oakville Soccer club on more activities in the future.
chelsea and alex.
Great Wolf Lodge Update
On October 17th Crave Travelled to Great Wolf Logde and met up with many other YAA’s from across Central West. We spent the weekend learning many new ways to advocate. New peer leaders started to learn about the tactics and manipulations used by the Tobacco Industry. As well they learned creative ways to communicate with others such as petitions and letters. The second and third years brushed up on these concepts while applying new language, such as social tobacco industry denormalization and refreshing the steps to action planning. A few trips to the water park later and it was time to head home. Overall it was an awsome weekend full of new knowledge and fun.
