In March of this year, four youth (one from each of the communities in Kainai) attended the annual Town Youth Participation Strategies conference in Brantford, Ontario. TYPS is a network of primarily rural youth centres, so there was a lot of opportunity for the four Kainai youth to connect with, and learn from other youth from across the country who face some of the same rural-related barriers to getting and staying involved in positive activities. Along with doing a whole bunch of really cool recreational activities like checking out the stars at the camp’s planetarium and making clay tiles as an art project, the four youth got the chance to meet two girls from another community we’re working with (Kugluktuk, Nunavut) practiced their facilitation skills, learned all about dancing in areal barn, and got to take part in some really cool educational workshops on topics they wanted to learn about. Two community workers came with the youth and helped to facilitate the conference program as well.