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Par Owen Charters<\/em><\/p>\n

Le 4 janvier marquait mes cinq ans de travail au sein d\u2019une organisation formidable. Quatre ann\u00e9es et des poussi\u00e8res \u00e0 voyager pour constater tout le travail auquel les Repaires jeunesse se d\u00e9vouent jour apr\u00e8s jour. Cinq ans \u00e0 voir des communaut\u00e9s port\u00e9es par leurs Repaires jeunesse.<\/p>\n

Le fameux adage \u00ab \u00c7a prend un village pour \u00e9lever un enfant \u00bb me vient souvent en t\u00eate lorsque je pense \u00e0 nos Repaires jeunesse. L\u2019expression provient du Nig\u00e9ria, o\u00f9 de nombreuses communaut\u00e9s reconnaissent que la t\u00e2che d\u2019\u00e9lever un enfant n\u2019est pas seulement la responsabilit\u00e9 des parents; bien d\u2019autres acteurs y ont un r\u00f4le \u00e0 jouer. Toutefois, il ne fait pas de doute que ce concept est menac\u00e9, voire r\u00e9volu. De plus en plus, ce n\u2019est plus le village qui contribue \u00e0 \u00e9lever un enfant. Les parents se tournent vers des organisations plus grandes prendre en charge la garde, l\u2019\u00e9ducation et les activit\u00e9s sportives de leurs enfants. Bien souvent, les grands-parents, oncles, tantes et la famille \u00e9largie n\u2019habitent pas la m\u00eame ville\u2014ou village\u2014qu\u2019eux.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Comme l\u2019a dit Kim Brooks, autrice de nombreux livres sur l\u2019art d\u2019\u00eatre parent: \u00ab De plus en plus, on semble avoir adopt\u00e9 l\u2019id\u00e9e que la protection des enfants est une qu\u00eate individualiste, qu\u2019\u00eatre parent c\u2019est un sport de comp\u00e9tition plut\u00f4t qu\u2019une responsabilit\u00e9 collective. \u00bb Il existe de nombreuses preuves qui d\u00e9montrent que les communaut\u00e9s, les quartiers et m\u00eame les familles sont de plus en plus isol\u00e9s. Par cons\u00e9quent, les enfants en souffrent. On d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 la t\u00e2che d\u2019\u00e9lever des enfants \u00e0 des parents fatigu\u00e9s et surmen\u00e9s, et on les bombarde d\u2019offres d\u2019institutions qui ne r\u00e9pondent pas \u00e0 tous les besoins.<\/p>\n

\u00c9lever des enfants ne devrait pas \u00eatre une comp\u00e9tition. On doit revenir aux bases et en faire la responsabilit\u00e9 de tout un village. S\u2019il y a une le\u00e7on qu\u2019on peut tirer de la pand\u00e9mie, c\u2019est que \u00e7a devient tr\u00e8s difficile pour les parents de se d\u00e9brouiller, de tout g\u00e9rer lorsque leur cercle devient de plus en plus petit, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce qu\u2019il ne reste qu\u2019eux (bien souvent, des m\u00e8res monoparentales) et les enfants. M\u00eame si c\u2019est la chose \u00e0 faire pr\u00e9sentement, ce n\u2019est pas vrai que les interactions virtuelles peuvent remplacer le contact humain. Le message qu\u2019on tente de passer avec D\u00e9branche et allume ne pourrait \u00eatre plus d\u2019actualit\u00e9 qu\u2019en ce moment, alors que l\u2019on constate tous les d\u00e9fis que posent l\u2019\u00e9cole \u00e0 distance et la programmation virtuelle.<\/p>\n

Les Repaires jeunesse sont une version moderne de ce village. On accueille \u00e0 bras ouverts les enfants qui franchissent nos portes. On les conna\u00eet. On conna\u00eet le quartier, l\u2019\u00e9cole, les familles. On est \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9coute. Et on s\u2019adapte aux besoins de la communaut\u00e9 plut\u00f4t que de cr\u00e9er un cadre institutionnel rigide qui requiert la conformit\u00e9.\u00a0<\/p>\n

C\u2019est cette id\u00e9e de village qui m\u2019inspire. C\u2019est quelque chose que ma femme et moi avons toujours voulu pour nos enfants\u2014ils ont besoin d\u2019un programme, d\u2019un groupe qui se moule \u00e0 eux plut\u00f4t qu\u2019eux doivent entrer dans le moule de ce dernier. C\u2019est le coup de pouce dont les parents \u00e9puis\u00e9s ont besoin. Un lieu s\u00fbr et accueillant. Un milieu o\u00f9 les jeunes peuvent se forger un avenir prometteur. Un milieu o\u00f9 on ne leur refuse l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 aucune opportunit\u00e9, o\u00f9 personne n\u2019est laiss\u00e9 de c\u00f4t\u00e9, o\u00f9 on met toutes les chances de leur c\u00f4t\u00e9. C\u2019est une organisation humaine, \u00e0 l\u2019image d\u2019un village.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 actuelle, bien trop d\u2019organisations n\u2019offrent pas cet aspect humain, cette image de village. Des processus, des institutions. Les parents\/tuteurs sont, plus souvent qu\u2019autrement, confront\u00e9s \u00e0 un casse-t\u00eate qu\u2019ils doivent construire en rassemblant des pi\u00e8ces \u00e9parpill\u00e9es ici et l\u00e0 afin de cr\u00e9er quelque chose qui ressemble \u00e0 un village. Mais c\u2019est difficile de cr\u00e9er un village dans une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 qui ne fonctionne plus de cette fa\u00e7on. Quartiers s\u00e9curis\u00e9s, s\u00e9gr\u00e9gation croissante des diff\u00e9rents quartiers; le village n\u2019est plus tr\u00e8s uni.\u00a0<\/p>\n

En cr\u00e9ant des opportunit\u00e9s, en offrant des possibilit\u00e9s, les Repaires jeunesse font partie de la solution. J\u2019ai entendu de nombreux parents monoparentaux dire que le Repaire jeunesse \u00e9tait le deuxi\u00e8me parent dans leur famille. On ne remplace pas les parents et on ne fait pas de l\u2019\u00e9ducation formelle. Mais on vient r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 tous les autres besoins qui ne sont pas combl\u00e9s. On est l\u00e0 pour jouer le r\u00f4le du village. Pour \u00e9lever les enfants et les aider \u00e0 s\u2019\u00e9panouir.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On a encore beaucoup \u00e0 construire, plus de villages \u00e0 cr\u00e9er. Et malgr\u00e9 la COVID, malgr\u00e9 les d\u00e9fis, on est pr\u00eats. Cinq ans, \u00e7a peut sembler long, mais c\u2019est comme si c\u2019\u00e9tait hier. Il y a tellement de choses qu\u2019on peut faire, tellement de choses qu\u2019on veut faire. Et tellement d\u2019humains qui se tournent vers nous, qui comptent sur nous\u2014des enfants, des ados, des parents et des communaut\u00e9s tout enti\u00e8res.<\/p>\n

On est pr\u00eats, on veut et on est capables. J\u2019ai h\u00e2te de voir ce que nous r\u00e9servent les cinq prochaines ann\u00e9es.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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By Owen Charters<\/em><\/p>

January 4 was my five-year anniversary of working in an amazing organization.\u00a0Of four-and-a-bit years travelling to see the work that Clubs dedicate themselves to, day in and day out. Of seeing communities buoyed up by the role that Clubs play.<\/p>

The common adage \u201cIt takes a village to raise a child\u201d often comes to mind when I think of our Clubs. The phrase comes from Nigeria, where many communities recognize that the job of raising a kid can\u2019t just be left to the parents\u2014many others need to be involved and engaged.\u00a0However, you can argue that this concept is under threat.\u00a0Increasingly, it\u2019s not the village that contributes to raising children.\u00a0Parents seek out larger institutions for child care, education, sports.\u00a0Often grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other extended family do not live in the same city\u2014or village.<\/p>

Kim Brooks, the author of several parenting books, including \u201cSmall Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear<\/a>,\u201d has said: \u201cMore and more, we seem to have embraced the idea that protecting children is an individualist pursuit, making parenting a competitive sport rather than a communal responsibility.\u201d\u00a0There is extensive evidence that communities, neighbourhoods, and even families are more and more isolated.\u00a0And kids are suffering as a result.\u00a0We have left the job of raising kids to tired, overwrought parents, and brace them with institutional offerings that don\u2019t provide all that\u2019s needed.<\/p>

Raising kids should not\u2014and cannot\u2014be a competition.\u00a0It needs to come back to being the responsibility of a village.\u00a0If there\u2019s anything we can take away from the COVID pandemic, it\u2019s that parents cannot manage, cannot cope as their world shrinks and shrinks until their family unit is just them (often a single mother) and the children.\u00a0While necessary right now, connecting via screen can never replace in-person.\u00a0Our message of \u2018Unplug to Connect\u2019 could not have better proof than the challenges realized by the widespread experiment of virtual schooling and virtual programming.<\/p>

Boys and Girls Clubs are the modern village.\u00a0We embrace the children that come through our doors.\u00a0We know them.\u00a0We know the neighbourhood, the school, the families.\u00a0We listen.\u00a0We adapt to what communities need, not creating rigid institutional structures that require conformity.<\/p>

It is the promise of a village that inspires me.\u00a0It\u2019s something my wife and I have been seeking for our own kids\u2014they need a program, a group that wraps itself around them, instead of processing them through it.\u00a0It\u2019s the helping hand for tired parents.\u00a0The safe place to be.\u00a0A place to create great futures.\u00a0To ensure no opportunity is denied and no one is left behind.\u00a0It\u2019s a human organization\u2014the face of a village.<\/p>

Too much of what we know is faceless\u2014a process or an institution.\u00a0Or parents and guardians have to string together a series of pieces\u2014a bit here, a bit over there.\u00a0It\u2019s difficult to create a village in a society that doesn\u2019t work that way anymore.\u00a0There is much evidence that the village has broken down\u2014gated communities, increasing segregation of neighbourhoods.\u00a0Robert Putnam\u2019s seminal work, \u201cBowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community<\/a>,\u201d documented much of this twenty years ago.\u00a0And his more recent work, \u201cOur Kids: The American Dream in Crisis<\/a>,\u201d studies how upward mobility for kids is fractured and broken.\u00a0Canada fares somewhat better, but we are not moving towards creating villages to raise our children.<\/p>

With opportunity, with possibilities, Boys and Girls Clubs are a large part of the solution.\u00a0I have had many single parents say that the Club was the other parent in their family.\u00a0We don\u2019t take away the responsibility of parenting, and we\u2019re not formal education.\u00a0But we\u2019re everything else that fills in the vital gaps when raising a child. We are there to be<\/u> that village.\u00a0To raise kids\u2014and to raise them up.<\/p>

We\u2019ve got lots of building to do, more villages to create.\u00a0And despite COVID, despite the challenges out there, we\u2019re ready in here.\u00a0Five years: some days that seems like a long time, but really it\u2019s the blink of an eye.\u00a0There\u2019s so much we can do, so much we want to do.\u00a0And so many faces that turn to us\u2014children, teens, parents, and the broader community.<\/p>

We\u2019re ready, willing, and able.\u00a0I\u2019m looking forward to the next five years.<\/p>

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