Thrive! The Canadian Centre for Positive Youth Development is proud to participate in the following projects in order to further our mission of providing leadership, knowledge and resources to develop capable young Canadians of positive character.
National Family Week 2010
October 4-10, 2010
National Family Week© has been celebrated since 1985 and is a time to recognize and celebrate all the qualities that make families special.
Thrive! has joined forces with Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs and 20 other national partners to promote National Family Week 2010: Families Connecting through Stories / Nouer des liens au moyen d'histoires en famille, celebrates the joys of reading and storytelling. Through these everyday activities, family members of all ages can take part in rediscovering the spirit of family.
Join us every year during the week just before Thanksgiving, as we promote and celebrate the value of the family in communities across the country.
For activity ideas from Thrive! In English - click here In French - click here
For more information about National Family Week 2010- click here
Thrive! and Others Tackle Drug Prevention Nationally with the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Thrive! The Canadian Centre for Positive Youth Development is honoured to be a part of a team of substance abuse organizations, professionals in the field, and other experts from across the country that are working toward creating a national plan to address the use, abuse and misuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs by young people.
Recently, the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) initiated a five-year plan for mobilizing youth-focused media and service organizations to reduce drug use among Canada's youth. The goal of A Drug Prevention Strategy for Canada’s Youth is to reduce the number of young people 10–24 years old who use illicit drugs, delay the onset of use, reduce the frequency of use, and curb the use of multiple illicit drugs. The youth strategy uses three complementary approaches, each intended to reinforce the impact of the others while delivering its own specific results.  More>
Concerned Children's Advertisers
Everyone needs a Media Monkey - or at least we all need to be our own 'Media Monkey' so that we can make healthy choices and not let the media rule our choices.  If you loved the award-winning 'House Hippo' you will thoroughly enjoy the new 'Media Monkey' public service announcement from Concerned Children's Advertisers.  Click here to view it>  Concerned Children’s Advertisers (CCA) was founded in 1991 by a group of Canadian companies who responsibly market and advertise products and services to children and their families. CCA’s objective is to create a focused and collective approach to addressing media and social issues that affect children in Canada.
CCA is a non-profit organization of 20 Canadian member companies, supported by over 40 partner companies, including child-centred advertisers, broadcasters and agencies. Our mandate is to use the shared resources of each member company to ensure ethics and responsibility in marketing to children and the social responsibility of caring for children.
CCA member companies have a concern for all issues affecting children, as well as a commitment to understanding and contributing solutions to the media and life challenges that children face each day.
Comprehensive School Health National Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Network
This informal network of national non-governmental organizations is concerned with promoting health, social development and learning of children and youth through school-based or school-linked health promotion policies, programs, practices or activities.  The Canadian School Health Centre is  a gateway to information on comprehensive school health (CSH) and health promoting schools (HPS).  Providing links to research, reports, how-to manuals, planning & assessment tools, lesson plans and student webquests.
This Consensus Statement on Comprehensive School Health was prepared by the CSH NGO Network.  This comprehensive approach integrates responses to several health and social problems and promotes the overall health and learning of children and youth, as well as adults who work in and with schools, parents/caregivers, schools and communities.		Consensus Statement on Comprehensive School Health PDF File (201 kb)
"Make a Connection Canada equipped Aboriginal youth with life skills training based on indigenous wisdom. "  Joanne McQuiggan, Executive Director of Thrive! The Canadian Centre for Positive Youth Development.
Make a Connection Canada was a national life skills program designed to empower more than 15, 000 Aboriginal youth from 5 to 18 years of age with essential “skills for life”. The program can be found in 23 Aboriginal, Inuit and Metis communities across Canada.
There are more than 400,000 Aboriginal young people under the age of 20 in Canada and they are greatly at risk. The rate of suicide among Aboriginal youth is five times higher than the Canadian average. Almost a third of Aboriginal children live in single-parent families, twice the rate of the general population. And while Aboriginal youth are more likely to complete high school (78%) now than they were 15 years ago (37%), their unemployment rate is 32%, almost double the rate for non-Aboriginal youth.
This project concluded in 2007.