Street Culture Inc. is a diverse and expansive organization that provides programs and services to youth in Regina and surrounding communities who need it the most and are working through the effects of complex experiences. In 1998, the Street Culture Project Inc. was founded as a non-profit charity and grew from being contracted to painting large-scale murals and faces at community events to a respected and relied upon agency for youth. The agency grew to employ over 100 employees and now provides a number of different programs and services including: emergency shelter and housing; mentorship; and employment programs and services.
Street Culture Inc.’s foundation is tied to the community and responding to the gaps for youth services that exist. The responsive nature of the organization requires them to work closely with youth, community and partnering agencies, funders, and government to identify those gaps and address them. Funding for the agency is dependent on relationships and ensuring the youths voice is heard.
Also pivotal is cultural responsiveness and perspectives that assist in guiding the day-to-day work of Street Culture Inc. Trauma informed practices, diversity and inclusion are key pillars in the operations of this organization. The youth we serve are diverse and require supports that are rooted in understanding the impacts and history of racism, and violence in our community.
Over the years, Street Culture has embedded itself in Regina and participates in many different community-led initiatives. Engagement and participation in fundraising events have been an important aspect of the mandate of the agency. Through these events, youth develop skills and confidence through their interactions within the community.
Street Culture is a leading example of effective community and economic development, with an emphasis on relationship and inclusive practices. The agency is seeking an equally dynamic Chief Executive Officer who wants to transition this important organization into the next phase of its development.
Mission:
To create environments where participants, mentors and volunteers can choose to increase their personal support networks, advance their skills and abilities, and contribute to community.
Vision:
To empower individuals to reach their fullest potential, maximizing the agency’s collective impact for those we serve.
Guiding Principles of Street Culture:
Relationships. Building strong, trusting, and respectful relationships is the fundamental key in all layers of Street Culture from staff to youth, colleague to colleague, and agency to community.
‘Team 1’. We are all part of different programs in the Agency, but we all are united by putting the collective priorities and needs of the larger organization above any one department.
Safety. Approach every situation with a filter of safety; providing environments of safety for ourselves, each other, and all youth is paramount.
Genuine, Passionate People. The adult supports employed understand it to be more than a pay cheque. SCP employs individuals who share and embrace positive youth- centered development and who embody the skills, ideology and values that result in the creation of authentic, respectful and caring relationships with youth.
Flexibility. Flexibility is not only necessary when engaging youth, it is also paramount in responding to different situations, the needs of the agency, and to provide the support and resources needed by all youth to help them reach their full potential and self-sufficiency for the betterment of their own lives and the community in general.
Solution-Focused. We work in an industry that is trite with problems, poor system responses, challenges, and setbacks, but we act towards overcoming all with a solution-focused approach.
Community Partnerships and Engagement. We actively foster and maintain respectful and mutually beneficial partnerships in the community, availing the support systems and resources of the community to the youth and the agency.
Accountability. We undertake to be open, honest and accountable in our relationships with youth, team members and ourselves.
Innovative. Create the environment and opportunities for youth, staff and volunteers to reach fullest potential in an environment of learning, sharing and innovation and continually strive to develop agency, community and self.
Communication. We strive for clear, respectful, accurate, coordinated and timely workplace communication between all.
Principles for Working with Youth:
Voluntary Participation. We understand that forced engagement is not conducive to finding success and engage those who choose to be engaged when they are ready to do so.
Journey Oriented. Interact with youth to help them understand the interconnectedness of past, present, and future as they decide where they want to go and how to get there.
Trauma-informed care. Recognize that all engaged youth have experienced trauma; build relationships, responses and services on that knowledge.
Nonjudgmental engagement. Interact with youth without labeling or judging them on the basis of their background, experiences, choices, or behaviours.
Harm reduction. Contain the effects of risky behaviour in the short term and seek to reduce its effects in the long term.
Trusting youth-adult relationship. Build relationships by interacting with youth in an honest, dependable, authentic, caring, and supportive way.
Strengths-based approach. Start with and build on the skills, strengths, and positive characteristics of each youth.
Positive youth development. Provide opportunities for youth to build a sense of competency, usefulness, belonging, and power.
Holistic. Engage youth in a manner that recognizes that mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, and social health are interconnected and interrelated.
Collaboration. Establish a principle-based, youth-focused system of support that integrates practices, procedures, and services within and across agencies, systems, and policies.
Desired Outcomes
Youth are safe and/or have increased protection from abuse, neglect and harm or threat of harm; protect youth from imminent harm.
Youth’s short-term, immediate basic needs for shelter, food and clothing have been met.
Youth have experienced trust and positive participation with Staff.
Youth are more empowered, making healthier decisions and utilizing community resources more effectively.
Youth are applying new knowledge and/or skills in their lives.
Youth have improved connections to community professionals to adequately meet their needs regarding addictions, sexual exploitation, justice, physical health and/or mental health.
Youth have improved connections with people in the community and/or positive peer networks.
Youth have positive connections with supports to meet longer-term needs including housing, education and/or employment.
Youth will voluntarily accept service from the Ministry of Social Services.
Youth are assisted in identifying immediate and longer-term safety, care and support needs.
Youth are connected to an independent living environment, a peer home, or aid youth in functioning safety within home environment.
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