Introduction

1. Official 2012 Composite Examination PresentationSponsored by the Blepoyowakto Philanthropic Foundation and the Skelijay Award

2. Introduction • —En Whalley, il y a grand taux de criminalité et un grand percent des jeunes prédisposé d'être impliqué avec crime. En 2010, 35.5% des criminels dans Canada était des jeunes (<12-21). • On veut réduire cet nombre scandaleuxpar offrant des activités pour les jeunesdans les centres communautaires. —Les centres communautaires offrant des sports, d'aide avec des devoirs, des conseils, des activités créatif et pour pratiquer de régler des problèmes. —Les programmes seront gratuits. • Quand les jeunes attendent ces activités, ils ne sont pas à causer des problèmes, et ils pensent des les activités dans les programmes, et pas des chose mal. Ils ne sont pas influencés négativement par leur amis. • —Le programme va commencer au North Surrey Rec. Centre et auront organisé par nous. Après une fois, les volontaires vont l'organiser.

3. How Shall this Plan Work? • This program will be open to teenagers and young adults 12-21 years old inclusive. • We will initially start the first community center at North Surrey Recreation Center Youth Lounge, then expands to other locations around the country and to certain countries around the world that offers rooms for the activities to be ran. • This program will run Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 5:00 pm-7:00 pm; Saturday and Sunday: 2:00 pm-5:00 pm. This program will run throughout the entire year. However, it will be closed on holidays. • As our first step, we will ask the City of Surrey to incorporate the community centers in their Leisure Guide. Also, we shall distribute brochures to community buildings and schools in the area so that the idea will be spread out. The interested students can then join the community centers (dubbed as Youcommucent—stands for Youth Community Centers) whenever they wish during the year. The teens can also come to the Youcommucent anytime during the period each day that it is offered—given that the teens don’t come at 6:50 pm on a Monday, for example.

4. The Rationale • We are primarily concerned with Whalley’s reputation and would like to change it. Many people in the GVRD has a stereotype that Whalley is filled with bad people. However, that is true, as Whalley’s crime rate is more than 5% higher than the rest of the city. After all, Whalley is the poorest part of this city and has the most homeless people and the highest poverty rate. • The amount of crime in this area is really concerning, and what’s even more concerning is that a large percentage of this crime is caused by young teenagers influenced by their bad peers and go on drugs…etc. We want to make Whalley a safer community, so the youth can lead better lives. Nobody wants their children to end up in jail and why should they? If we can teach children to better themselves, then as adults they’ll have more of a morality and therefore we can reduce crime rate reatly .

5. Rationale(continued) • If this program gets off the ground now, think of how effective it will be ten years from now. We can expand to other areas in Canada and eventually globally that need something like this, and everyone can be better off because of this. Many areas around the world has few places to offer these activities because the government does not care and the poverty rate is high. • If we can teach young adults earlier on to talk to someone, enjoy free activities, and receive help that otherwise would not be offered, and not to commit to a life of crime or addiction, wouldn’t we have a better community? Wouldn’t you feel safer when you walk out at night? That’s what this program is for; to help out our community, and maybe more. • Crime is never too high of a priority in countries around the world, and that encourages criminals to take action. However, our program will focus on how to remove the source of the crime by occupying potential criminals’ minds with something other than joining gangs.

6. Goals and Indicators • Our aim is to have at least 1,000 students entered in this program in Whalley. If we can do that, that’s already a thousand people who are more aware about the choices they make and where they will end up later in life. And one thousand people can have a better idea about what’s ethical; what’s right. Other areas around the country should have a good proportion of their youths (about 40%) that knows and are involved in this free program. • We’re confident that this program can decrease crime rate. Right now, the percentage of youth-led crime is around 35.5%, and what we want to do is slash it in half; to around 17%, or at least under 20% and if we can do that, that’s one small step closer to making this world a better place. This not only reduces youth crime rate, but overall crime rate as well. • In areas around the world, we want to do better than just helping the youths in the area to stop joining gangs. However, we also want to reduce poverty and offer the children in those areas a place to learn, have fun, and gain valuable personal experience. Indicators of that happening would include higher literacy, and more happy faces.

7. Goals and Indicators (continued) • People who go to these community centres should acquire the ability to stop crime when they can see it (call 911), and learn what crime can be what forms it can come in. They will also learn to avoid more addictive substances or to take the smallest dosage the least often as possible. They won’t be afraid to talk to someone if they or someone close to them has a problem. The most important things that these young adults will learn is, however, that by joining gangs, they are making wrong decisions. Also, they should enjoy having fun and they should become friendly, and that should be reflected in their newly acquired skills such as leadership, citizenship, intelligence, problem solving, cooperation, and confidence. • These centres will act as a beacon to children suffering from over-stressful conditions. Here, they can just hang out, participate in group activities and sports, and meet new people who come from different walks of life. The counseling that we will provide will be turned into an indicator if the youths have better attitudes and suffer from less interpersonal conflicts at school . People with homework problems should eventually have higher quality homework when they come to the Youcommucent. • Another indicator would include the event that new youths are coming into our program and experienced teenagers not suffering from any more problems, or simply not coming anymore because their problems has been diminished to speck.

8. 2nd Step: Expanding our Horizons • These are possible places that we can expand on our campaign: Prince George’s Plaza Recreation Centre, Victoria’s Blanshard Community Centre, Saskatoon’s The Avenue Community Centre, Red Deer Recreation Centre, Sandra Schmirler’s Recreation Centre. • These centres out of many were picked because they are situated in cities that have the highest crime rate in Canada. • We will further our campaign by asking the Blepoyowakto Philanthropic Foundation to fund us for trips to those cities/towns and we shall then spend about 4-6 months in those cities/towns to introduce the teenagers there to community centers that we know are unique to those places. • Crimes in these cities because of how rural they are. A small population means a small police force. Initially, the governments in the area does not care about criminal activity at all. The cities are relatively young as well. • However, governments in the cities above are starting to fund for a safer community.

9. Recent Timeline • If we keep our program going and expanding, youths would be less likely to get involved in nefarious activities such as illegal behaviours and joining gangs. • When the program starts there will not be that many youths attending because it will take time to get our program out in the public eye. • The first day will probably not be very successful (only maybe 2-5 people may come), but after a few days, people will start to know about us and more youths will come. • After a week, we project that we will have around 20 youths attending the program each week. • After one month, we project that we will have around 80 youths attending the program each week. • After one year, we project that we will have around 150 youths attending each week. • After two years, we believe we will have expanded our program into at least one other recreation centre and have the plans underway to expand out into another. • After five years, we hope to have reduced youth crime rates by 7%. • If our program is successful and still running after 10 years, we estimate to have around anywhere from 350-500 youths per week attending the multiple programs we will have by then.

10. Generational Timeline • After twenty years, if our program is still operational we expect to have expanded outside of British Columbia, focusing mainly on the territories where crime rates, youth and adult, are high. • After thirty years, we hope that our program while have reached out to other countries in need, and that we will have already had branches in the USA. • After fifty years, hopefully the program will still be going strong and running in many countries around the globe. We hope to have reduced the youth crime rate in Canada by 25%. • If after one-hundred years, the program is still running we estimated that youth crime rates in Canada will be reduced by up to 45%, and that there will be at least 50 programs in each province, 20 in each territory. Also, if in one-hundred years we have a moon or Mars colony, we hope to be opening a new operation there to mark the centennial of the program.

11. The Usage of Person Hours • The 100000 person hours will be used as follows over the first 4 years. • 20 volunteers at 6 locations for 12 hours per week (including set-up) is equivalent to 1440 hours per week. This program will be run by us for the first year, making it 52 weeks and a total of 74880 hours. • Training the future leaders: 10 hours per leader for 120 future leaders. This is equivalent to 1200 hours in total. • Public Campaign (including brochures and political usages): 3000 hours. • Outside activities (trips, extra counseling, meetings…etc.): 5000 person hours. • Total: 84080 person hours.

12. Budget • Total Expenses by the end of the 100000 Person Hours: • Renting of Youth Lounges: $50 per hour. $500 per week. About $25000 per year. Four Years: $100000 • Equipment: $2000 per community center. There are 6 targets that we want to focus in Canada, making it a total of $12000. • Training of Future Leaders: $50 per leader. 20 leaders at 6 locations meaning 120 leaders. Total: $6000 • Miscellaneous (for trips, parties…etc.): $8000 • Medical Fees + Construction Fees: $6000 • Total Fees: $132000 • Total Income by the end of the 100000 Person Hours: • Fundraisers: $1200 per fundraiser. 20 fundraisers a year. $24000 per year from fundraisers. Four Years: $96000 • Penny Drive (like the Salvation Army): $5000 • Sales (bake sales, car washes…etc.): $200 per sale. 50 sales a year. $10000 per year. Total of $40000 in 4 years. • Total Income: $141000 • The participants will travel about 10-45 minutes to the community center that offers Youcommucent (depending on where they live). The leaders will travel about the same distance also depending on where they live. • Each trip to the 6 locations that we will offer at first will take about 3 days via airplane and car. Living will probably reside in a camper van. The Blepoyowakto Philanthropic Foundation will provide about $200000.

13. 3rdStep: Spreading Internationally • The top two countries with the highest crime rate are the United States with 11, 877, 218 criminals and the United Kingdom with 6, 523, 706 criminals. But what might make countries like these so high in crime? • These countries are English speaking countries, so we will be able to put our ideas into action quite quickly. • UK runs on a Parliamental Monarchy • US runs on a Democratic government system • These countries have mixed religions and are White-race dominate. • United States have around 300 million inhabitants, UK has around 50 million inhabitants. • The United States and the United Kingdom are very similar to each other as England claimed the area which became the U.S. in the 17 century. • U.K. is mountainous and much smaller than U.S.A., which has much more flat lands and is the 4th largest country in the world. • These countries are the two countries that we will spread our ideas to after 4 years of working in Canada.