Be The Change Earth Alliance is proud to partner with the UBC Sustainability Ambassadors Program to offer our Youth Climate Ambassador Project (YCAP) that encourages students to take meaningful collective action in their communities. These workshops are facilitated by trained UBC post-secondary student Sustainability Ambassadors in a by youth, for youth delivery model, keeping workshop content relatable, engaging, and inspiring.
YCAP explores climate change and climate justice through a climate storytelling lens. Students gain tools, skills, and practices to become effective communicators, active citizens, and confident “Climate Ambassadors” in their lives and communities.
Workshop Content
Three variations of YCAP are available, with distinct focuses and age ranges:
1. YCAP: Climate Change & Animals
Recommended ages: Grades 1-4
This introductory workshop helps students learn about and understand climate change through the climate stories of animals and habitats that may be affected. Using interactive case studies and hands-on activities that tap into students’ creativity and imagination, YCAP: Climate Change & Animals provides an engaging foundation for climate change education and the impacts on Earth’s living creatures and systems.
2. YCAP: Climate Change & Communities
Recommended ages: Grades 5-12
This interactive workshop guides students through an exploration of climate change and its effects on their own lives, and on the lives of people and communities across Canada and around the world. They will be introduced to the topic of climate justice and the inequitable impacts of climate change, and will use case studies and their own lived experiences to craft individual climate stories as powerful tools of positive climate action.
3. YCAP: Climate Justice
Recommended ages: Grades 8-12
This interactive workshop takes a deeper look at climate justice and environmental racism through reflective and inclusive discussions. Students will participate in a case study analysis and learn about how inequities are faced by frontline communities in the climate crisis. They will also craft and learn how to create meaningful change by sharing their own climate stories.
YCAP workshops can take place in classrooms, after school, in the community, or online. In-person workshops are available in the Metro Vancouver region. The recommended length of all YCAP workshops is 60-90 minutes.