Ministries

As part of Canadian Multicultural Centre, we exist to engage the youth into developing a good values and strong relationships. We want to empower them through guidance, counselling and mentorship. Our purpose is to build a generation of morally sound, productive, and successful young leaders, so that they can impart their families with exceptional virtues, drive, integrity and wisdom, which will transform their lives, homes, schools, and community at large.

The focus of our Youth program revolves around three themes. Every year we concentrate on a particular theme and this is carried out through a three year cycle which is incorporated into the yearly goals of Canadian Multicultural Centre as a whole. We operate Peer Leadership System, in which the youth are trained to lead youths youth.

Every Sunday – Time: 1pm – 2pm

Our weekly programs are a blast. Once you get a taste of our youth program, you never want to go back. A typical event starts with interesting ice breakers, poetry, art and dance, soothing music, followed by the life changing keynote speech for the day.

Here in Canadian Multicultural Centre youth group, you never feel like a stranger; you will be part of a caring youth family and you’ll feel like part of the family the moment you arrive.

A call to action: Twice a year
Spring holiday, Autumn holiday 10am -10pm event: Ending with an after party of a life time. It’s an explosive, energizing and interesting life changing event filled with loads of fun, music, and dance.

This is a convention held in summer. You do not want to miss this one. It’s a total knockout. Taking you to a state of ecstasy and landing you back on earth with a sonic ball of joy and satisfaction.

Calling all who are youths and intellectuals. Think you can challenge our Canadian Multicultural Centre Youth on interesting trivia of every month at our CMC Youth Quiz? I kid you not, defeat is inevitable. Our guys are off the chart. Since you can’t beat us, join us. Come along and sing along.

The event is held twice a month on Sundays after the Youth program which runs from 5pm – 6pm. Now do not attend this event if you do not want to discover the real you, unlock your true potentials, develop your natural talents and gifting, create your unique selling point and increase in value and worth dramatically.
This is an event where:
The lost becomes found.
The overwhelmed get unburdened.
The timid becomes bold.
The shy becomes confident and the real you shines for life.

The aim of this workshop is to help you unleash the best in you. Remember you are reaction waiting to explode with an enormous force of energy. That energy will surely shake the foundations of the earth.

OTHER YOUTH INITIATIVES

Over 18s is a dynamic intelligence movement aimed at answering the pertinent questions of young adults through the study of the lives of remarkable youth successes. Over 18’s employs a unique approach to youth development and motivation by facilitating effective workshops and network designed to empower young people to become young professionals. The topics in these powerful monthly meetings range from Career and Financial Development to Relationships and Family Planning right through to youth entrepreneurship. Over 18s is a life-changing initiative that is spilling out of the doors of our community center into the homes, offices, and streets of Alberta.

It has been well documented that preadolescents, teenage girls and young women are particularly susceptible to feelings of low self-esteem, peer pressure, incorrect self-image, acceptance, underachievement and sexual pressures. Below a few facts and figures to illustrate this;
• In 2003, 83% of the episodes of the top 20 shows among teen viewers contained some sexual content, including 20% with sexual intercourse
• 47% of the songs on the top CDs in 2020 contained sexual content — 22% included direct descriptions of sexual intercourse
• On average, music videos contain 93 sexual situations per hour, including eleven “hard core” scenes depicting behaviors such as intercourse and oral sex
• Girls who watched more than 14 hours of rap music videos per week were more likely to have multiple sex partners and to be diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease
• Before parents raised an outcry, Abercrombie and Fitch marketed a line of thong underpants decorated with sexually provocative phrases such as “Wink Wink” and “Eye Candy” to 10-year-olds
• Neilson estimates that 6.6 million children ages 2-11 and 7.3 million teens ages 12-17 watched Justin Timberlake rip open Janet Jackson’s bodice during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.

Tomorrow’s Young Professionals…Today
New Horizon is an award winning collective formed to provide a platform for ambitious young people to maneuver careers and business ambitions into the financial market place. New Horizon Investment Club is a 3-tiered approach to practical success in the financial sector, which employs mentorship, educational workshops and a real time retail investing experience to achieve this goal. In 2017 New Horizon was privileged to be short listed for the new award category ‘Most Interesting Club’. This provided a crack in the door for New Horizon to announce its presence and show off its uniqueness among market forerunners and old hands.

As a community center, we recognize that although all efforts are made to instill moral values into our young ladies; for one reason or another, a small amount of them may make the huge life changing decision of becoming teenage mothers. It was also felt that they may be young mothers who never had the nurturing parenting required for developing the socio-cognitive capacity for making expeditious life decisions, and now facing various forms of emotional, social, and other mental health challenges. The aim of this group is to encourage young mothers to overcome the stigma of becoming young mothers and returning normal productive life in the community.

The objectives of the group are to:

1 Provide counseling to young mothers, to better enable them to cope with this significant life change.

2 Encourage young mothers to realize that their lives have not ended because of their teenage pregnancy or child birth.

3 Help young mother to source programs within the community to help better themselves and actualize their full academic or career potential

4 Identify and provide other supportive program, such as childcare, which may be needed to assist young mothers to fit into the community as normal as possible