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Agriculture committee It's six.
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee I might throw Liz some of this too. First of all, 51% of the youth whom we surveyed are interested in pursuing a career in agriculture. Of those, over 80% live in rural communities, so they may or may not live on the farm.
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee What we are hearing overwhelmingly is that young people are looking for support in exploring career opportunities that are out there, and exploring a broad range of careers that affect the agriculture sector—science, technology, the environment. That's one of the roles we're play
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee I would say, from what I'm hearing from youth—and we don't get a lot of specifics—is that there is definitely stress about whether or not to take over the family farm and to look at agriculture more broadly. That decision and the impact it has on families is often stressful, I wo
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee But in general, our youth are telling us that they want to explore career opportunities.
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee Thank you for your question. I'm going to respond in English. I hope that's okay.
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee We do have active programs in Quebec. We work with the AJRQ, the Association des jeunes ruraux du Québec. Essentially they are 4-H for francophone youth in Quebec. We also have a 4-H association of mainly anglophone youth, which is quite small, but any program that we are develop
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee Absolutely. I think that when our plan is in place and our resources are available, we'll have a very customized approach to rolling out those programs and working with all of the communities, because, as everyone knows, Canada is very diverse and we have a lot of different needs
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee —key for the adults who are supporting the young people.
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee We will be, yes.
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee Yes, when it's all rolled out.
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee Absolutely, you bet. We'd welcome that.
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee I would say that we can always be doing a better job of informing young people of the opportunities that are out there and also giving them the tools to cope with the stresses they face. One of the things 4-H is very involved in is creating career opportunity exploration program
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee Yes. Our strategy with our healthy living initiative is to create a series of tip sheets and resources not only for our young people but also our volunteer leaders. One of the main pieces we're identifying is that our volunteer leaders who support our club-level programming for o
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith
Agriculture committee I haven't heard anything specifically on that. I'm sure it is impacting our clubs and our communities and rural youth up in that region. I would say that it's not just transportation; it's access to broadband and technology. It's really the feeling of being isolated and not bein
January 29th, 2019Committee meeting
Erin Smith