Application Description - University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

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equired, relevant information will be contained in the pre-written scripts. In addition to the team leaders (2) and pre-selected facilitators (2) who delivered workshops last year, we will be recruiting 8 student volunteers. We are looking for a mixture of first-year students and upper-year students. Topics Access to Justice Consumer Protection Criminal Law Housing 2. Community Youth Project Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU) is an organization geared towards assisting youth, aged 16-30, in increasing their employability. YOU works to provide these youth with training, skills development, support and resources which will assist them in finding employment and in building their futures. Every three weeks, YOU runs an intensive program for at-risk youth, called Training for Employment Success (TES), where they cover a variety of topics related to these youth’s needs. NOTE: Volunteers will be required to attend YOU to deliver the workshops to these youth. YOU is located at 141 Dundas Street in downtown London (accessible by bus). Student volunteers will provide the youth participants with a 1-2 hour seminar on employment law, which will cover a variety of related issues, such as the effect of a criminal record on employment. Our aim is to engage with the YOU participants, and to help them to learn new and useful information with regards to their legal rights in an informal and interactive atmosphere. NOTE: All volunteers must be available for a mandatory training session on September 23 from 12:30-2:00pm. Seminars will be run at YOU from 1:00-3:00pm once every three weeks on either Tuesdays or Thursdays. Volunteers must also be required at least one meeting with PLE Supervisors per semester as needed. a. Resume b. Student Application Form
Volunteer Responsibilities: Volunteers will conduct 3 workshops per semester. After each workshop volunteers will complete a workshop summary sheet and time log. Volunteers must have regular communication with the PLE supervisors. Hand in answers to the following questions: Are you available for training on September 23 from 12:30-2:00pm? o Yes/No Have you volunteered with YOU before? o Yes/No Are you available to volunteer with YOU from either 10:30am-12:30pm or 1:00-3:30pm on EITHER Tuesdays, Wednesday or Thursdays? If so, please let us know what times work for you. o Yes/No If Yes, please check off your availability: □ 10:30am-12:30pm Tuesdays □ 10:30am-12:30pm Wednesdays □ 10:30am-12:30pm Thursdays □ 1:00pm-3:30pm Tuesdays □ 1:00pm-3:30pm Wednesdays □ 1:00pm-3:30pm Thursdays Are you available to travel to YAC? Note: readily accessible by bus o Yes/No Please explain your previous skills and experiences working with youth and any specific interest in youth advocacy.
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