Youth in Wood Buffalo are creative, innovative citizens with a vision for vibrant, resilient communities. The Youth Vision & Voice report values their concerns, ideas, views, and experiences as they recover from the 2016 Horse River wildfire disaster, and further enhance their individual and collective resilience.
This report offers insight from a 2017 social media campaign and Creative Action Research project, designed for and by youth ages 14-24, that prompted more than 350 unique concerns and ideas for vibrant communities. It also includes compelling youth voices from interviews—conducted by young research assistants—with 20 youth who created and shared media content as part of #YouthVoicesWB.
The #YouthVoicesWB campaign and research study, led by the ResiliencebyDesign (RbD) Research Innovation Lab at Royal Roads University (RRU), is part of the Youth Voices Rising: Recovery & Resilience in Wood Buffalo project funded by the Canadian Red Cross (www. resiliencebydesign.com/yvr).
