{"id":2503,"date":"2010-04-09T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:02:07","slug":"niagara-youth-learn-life-skills-at-unity-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/04\/niagara-youth-learn-life-skills-at-unity-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara youth learn life skills at Unity Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2504\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2504\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2504\" title=\"Unity Games student volunteers\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/unitygames.jpg\" alt=\"Unity Games student volunteers\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unity Games student volunteers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>About 100 Niagara youth will gather at Brock on Saturday, April 10 for the inaugural Unity Games Day.<\/p>\n<p>The games will teach life skills such as teamwork, co-operation and leadership. It will include participants from the United Way of St. Catharines and District and the Resource Association for Teens (RAFT) after-school programs. Student, staff and faculty volunteers will lead the activities in Walker Complex.<\/p>\n<p>James Mandigo, a Physical Education and Kinesiology professor at Brock, developed the program in 2006, when he conducted Unity Games for youth in El Salvador and the British Virgin Islands. He used sport and physical activities to encourage healthy choices and living skills in a country that has the second-highest homicide rate among youth.<\/p>\n<p>At the Unity Games, students make new friends while learning positive life skills, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Unity Games are a great way for Niagara youth to come together to mark the World Health Organization\u2019s World Health Day,\u201d Mandigo said.<\/p>\n<p>Community Connections and Youth University are two of the many University departments supporting the Unity Games. The games have provided student volunteers with the chance to combine their academic studies with community service.<\/p>\n<p>The games have engaged \u201cstudents from all years of study and a wide rage of backgrounds for a common cause,\u201d said Kristen Smith, Community Connections co-ordinator. \u201cThis has been a positive experience for Brock volunteers. And it will also be a life-changing event for many of the youth who will visit our campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sodexo, the University\u2019s campus caterer, will provide a nutritious lunch for all youth and volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The games will be from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=TheBrockNews&amp;loc=en_US\"><em>Get <\/em>The Brock News<em> delivered to your email<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 Niagara youth will gather at Brock on April 10 for the inaugural Unity Games Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}