Making a Difference with Youth
Eva's Initiatives — Award for Innovation

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Eva's Initiatives and CIBC have teamed up to offer three awards of $5000 each for organizations working with homeless or at risk youth. The deadline for applications is November 7, 2008.

Award winners will:

• Demonstrate innovation in delivering services to homeless youth;
• Successfully use partnerships to develop, implement or operate services;
• Deliver services that help youth who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless achieve greater self-sufficiency and reduce their chances of experiencing homelessness in the future;
• Offer services that integrate two or more of the following: housing, education, vocational training, employment, health and addictions supports, life skills, or other interventions aimed at assisting homeless and at risk youth to become self-sufficient.

Obtain more information about the awards and an application form.

or write us at awards@evas.ca

Why offer an Award for Innovation?

The goal of the awards is to recognize other organizations that are doing innovative work with youth who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness.

What does Eva's mean by 'innovation'?

Innovation means different things to different people. For these awards, innovation means:

• New methods for addressing a community need are established, resulting in improved services aimed at helping homeless youth develop self-sufficiency.
• Something new develops in the community as a result of an initiative. (Some examples are: new partners or sectors in your community become involved in addressing homelessness; services that were previously unavailable now are available; or an initiative results in increased public awareness and understanding of youth homelessness.)
• Partnerships develop between services for homeless youth and other sectors such as business, labour, industry, financial services, education and training, government, and faith communities.
• New ways to more effectively manage services for young homeless individuals are identified and implemented.

Review Panel

A seven member review panel from across Canada is responsible for reviewing applications and selecting the winners. Winners of the 2009 Awards will be announced in February 2009.

Want to apply for an Eva's Initiatives Award for Innovation?

Download information about the 2009 awards and an application form here or send an email to awards@evas.ca to request an application.