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Manitoba Youth Leadership
Scholarship Program
Selection Criteria | Descriptors
| Healthy Living Topics
Application
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The Youth Leadership Scholarship Program recognizes
Grade 12 students who have engaged in meaningful leadership and
citizenship volunteer activities during the past year that were
targeted at promoting healthy living in their communities and
schools.
Two hundred scholarships of $500 each are available
to Manitoba grade 12 students. Scholarships may be used to attend
post-secondary studies at any recognized post-secondary institution.
To apply for a scholarship, simply complete the
enclosed application form, have your volunteer work verified by
the teacher who supervised you or by a person in charge of the
program where you volunteered.
Completed application forms must be submitted
by February 28, 2007
Selection
Criteria
Application assessment will be based on the following
criteria:
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extent to which the student demonstrated good
citizenship;
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extent to which the student demonstrated leadership;
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extent to which the volunteer work addressed
the goals of healthy living;
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degree to which the project provided a direct
service to the community;
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impact of the student's work on the school or
community, and
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the number of hours the student volunteered.
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Descriptors
Citizenship: Youth citizenship activities
are activities that involve youth in volunteering in their schools
and communities by developing good relations with others, working
in cooperative ways toward achieving common goals, and by collaborating
with others for the well-being of their communities.
Leadership: Youth leadership, in the context
of this scholarship, is defined as leading by organizing other groups
of youth, or leading by example by being involved in citizenship
volunteer activities in their schools and communities.
Healthy Living: Healthy
Living is about creating conditions and supporting behaviours that
promote the best possible health choices for everyone. By making
healthier choices daily and working together to create environments
that support health, we can reduce our risk for illness and injury.
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Healthy Living
Topics
Active Living:
Physical activity reduces stress, strengthens the heart and lungs,
increases energy, and helps us achieve and maintain a healthy body
weight--all important factors in living a healthy lifestyle.
Chronic Diseases Prevention:
Chronic diseases represent the major and growing component of health
care costs, with estimates that cardiovascular diseases, diabetes
and cancer cost the Canadian economy more than $55 billion every
year. There are, however, some activities that could help prevent
or delay the onset of chronic disease.
Healthy Eating
Eating healthy foods in sensible amounts will improve our overall
health and energy levels while contributing to a healthy weight.
Not only will this help lower the risk of conditions such as diabetes
and heart disease, it can improve our sense of well being and self
esteem.
Healthy Sexuality:
Sexual health includes a person's physical, emotional and mental
health, and evolves over the course of a person's life. Relationships,
self-esteem, emotions, gender identity and sexual orientation are
some of the many aspects of healthy sexuality.
Injury Prevention:
Injury is the leading cause of childhood hospitalization and death
in the province. Unintentional injuries alone cost Manitoba an estimated
$819 million every year. The leading causes of injury in Manitoba
between 1992 to 1999 included suicide, motor vehicle traffic injuries,
falls and fractures, suffocation and choking, and assault.
Mental Health Promotion:
Physical health is about much more than the absence of disease.
In the same way, mental wellness is much more than the absence of
mental illness. Mental health promotion involves actions to improve
the mental well-being of individuals, families, organizations and
communities.
Tobacco Reduction:
One of the best ways to ensure a healthy population in the future,
is to ensure that youth do not start smoking. Tobacco is the only
consumer product that causes disease, disability and death when
used exactly as intended.
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Completed application forms must be submitted
by February 28, 2007 to:
Hugh Sigurdson
MB4Youth
310-800 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3G 0N4
Phone: 945-2568 or toll free 1-800-282-8069 ext. 2568
Fax: (204) 945-5726
e-mail: hsigurdson@gov.mb.ca
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