The school principal at Marc Garneau gave permission for student recruitment through flyers and class talks. The Flemingdon Health Centre, conveniently located across the street from school, agreed to supplement SRC support by providing free space for workshops and rehearsals. While the hope was to finish the process with 10 dedicated youth, a group of 19 youth completed the program with near-perfect attendance. For the last 10 weeks of the school year, Shira held two-hour weekly workshops tackling topics decided in consultation with youth. In addition to safer sex, community-specific issues such as gender roles and women’s attire, barriers to testing, consent, abuse, racism, and homophobia were paid special attention. Each workshop included theatre training and exercises, group discussion, and opportunities for youth to engage with the subject matter by devising skits, songs, raps, poems, and dances
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