- Description
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The Coalition of Neurodivergent Youth (CNY) is a dedicated, youth-led organization situated in the Greater Toronto Area with a profound commitment to elevating awareness and fostering acceptance of invisible disabilities. Our central mission revolves around the cultivation of leadership skills within a diverse youth demographic, irrespective of their individual backgrounds. Our overarching goal is to facilitate the development of tomorrow's leaders, regardless of their ancestry, gender, abilities, or socioeconomic status.
We proudly align ourselves with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being across all age groups. Our advocacy initiatives are geared towards fostering respect, recognition, and inclusivity for neurodiverse youth in every facet of society. We diligently address the obstacles hindering their access to essential services, such as employment, healthcare, and community support.
At CNY, we are dedicated to shedding light on the unique challenges faced by neurodiverse youth, particularly in the realms of education, employment, and daily life. Our distinctive approach is founded on empowering these young individuals through a strengths-based methodology. Furthermore, we actively engage in an array of research projects, craft informative awareness campaigns, and disseminate valuable resources designed to benefit both youth and their families.
- Number of employees
- 2 - 10 employees
- Company website
- https://www.cnyouth.ca
- Categories
- Graphic design Volunteer organizing Community engagement Fundraising Social justice
- Industries
- Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
Recent projects
Literature Summary Research Assistant
Our research lab publishes dozens of papers every year to promote projects in our field of research. Among these papers are systematic reviews of relevant literature, which analyze the progression of research within our field. We would like to collaborate with students to support our literature review process by categorizing papers and summarizing important findings. This allows us to extract and process data more easily. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our research and the types of academic papers that we are interested in. Reading studies relevant to our area of research. Applying the categorization scheme to classify relevant studies. Summarizing important results from relevant studies. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Working with researchers to draft a publication based on the results.
Grant Development and Research Content Specialist
We are eager to collaborate with students who can assist us in navigating the grant application process. This collaboration will entail several essential steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our organization's vision statement and one of our defined projects. Crafting a comprehensive needs statement that delineates the community problem we aim to address and convincingly justifies the necessity for funding our project. Identifying potential sponsors and funding opportunities that align with both our organization's mission and our specific project goals. Enhancing the clarity and persuasiveness of our grant proposal writing, ensuring it effectively communicates our mission and project impact. As an added opportunity, students can also explore: Identifying novel community project opportunities that resonate with our mission. We are seeking motivated students who can take on the responsibility of small-scale grant writing to help our organization secure the funding needed to make a meaningful impact in the lives of neurodivergent youth and the broader community." Additionally an option will be given to take on a literature review related to neurodiversity, youth, and health. Completing a literature review involves several essential steps: defining research objectives, creating effective search strategies, conducting comprehensive database searches, selecting and evaluating sources, categorizing and organizing materials, maintaining a bibliographic database, analyzing and summarizing key findings, synthesizing information, writing concise source summaries, critiquing source quality, identifying influential authors and theories, citing sources consistently, possibly creating a conceptual framework, writing a coherent review section, editing and proofreading meticulously, staying current with new research, and seeking feedback from peers and mentors. This systematic process ensures a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the chosen research topic.
Digital Content Creation
We are a new startup, and would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. Ultimately, you will be working on content creation for our organization, including video, social media, and other collateral that we can use as go-to marketing tools. If you like the sound of our culture, and are ready to tackle this challenge with us, then we'd love to hear from you.
Blogging - Disability- Advocacy
CNYouth is trying to build its blogging platform, We want to create a blog to strengthen our marketing. We would like to collaborate with students to create blog posts that drive more traffic to our website. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our goals, target market, products and services. Recommending topics for our blog posts. Drafting blog posts relevant to our business. Revising blog posts based on feedback. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending ways to market our blog.