February 3, 2025
It has been everything I hoped for and more. The students have all shown incredible growth in not only their mechanical skills, but their social skills as well. The Gap program has helped them and me advance in ways we previously thought unachievable. When writing a script, sincerity can be hard to communicate and hyperbole is easy ,but we live in a time laid with uncertainty and many youth feel lost or unwelcome in this world, so when I say that this program is life changing, I mean it whole heartedly, as I’ve seen it first hand, and every single Gap alumni I've talked to tonight 100% agree.
May 11, 2023
Programming
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GAP
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I started GAP in late February and in the beginning of the program I was very shy and didn’t talk very much but with each week and getting to know the staff, my confidence grew more and more with each day of GAP.
March 20, 2023
Earn-a-Bike
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Programming
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Lately I’ve been hearing the voice of Ross Gellar in my head an awful lot. While he had many great lines over the seasons of the TV show Friends, there is one scene in particular that feels really relatable right now.
March 20, 2023
Earn-a-Bike
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One of the flagship programs of Two Wheel View is our Earn-A-Bike program. Earn-A-Bike is a unique program that focuses on Social and Emotional Learning using the bike and bike maintenance as the teaching tool.
March 20, 2023
Resilience
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Community
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Impact
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I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on what it means to be resilient. Certainly, our personal and organizational resilience is being tested this year.
March 20, 2023
Programming
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Earn-a-Bike
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Full Cycle First Nations
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March 20, 2023
Programming
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Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a process of attaining the knowledge, attitudes, and skills we need as humans to ‘understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.’
March 20, 2023
Impact
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There is a large body of evidence that supports the value of quality mentoring, including an analysis of more than 70 mentoring programs that found positive outcomes across social, emotional, behavioural, and academic areas of youth development.
March 20, 2023
Community
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Two Wheel View is more than just bikes and bike clubs. A lot of our value comes from the physical spaces we inhabit.
March 20, 2023
Youth Development
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Learning
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As a youth development after school program, we use the bicycle as a tool to build resilience and develop social emotional learning in youth.
March 20, 2023
Community
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In a world where the definition of community has changed drastically – from the people who lived on neighbouring farms within a short distance to more than one billion people who are active on Facebook – is it more important than ever that we focus on building positive relationships with the world around us.
March 20, 2023
Earn-a-Bike
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March 20, 2023
Community
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When it comes to providing positive outcomes for young people, combining the resources of family, community and schools has proven to be the recipe for success. However, we believe youth development programs do more than just change the lives of the kids – they also impact the community in positive ways.
March 20, 2023
Full Cycle First Nations
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Resilience
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Using the bicycle as a tool, our programs foster resilience in youth by building age appropriate competencies such as teamwork, problem solving and leadership.
March 20, 2023
Values
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Our values – adventure, respect, authenticity, resilience and community – weave together throughout our team, our office and workshop, and our programs.
March 20, 2023
Youth Development
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The values of our organization are all in some sense inseparable, but no two go hand-in-hand like authenticity goes with respect.
March 20, 2023
Values
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Respect is one of Two Wheel View’s most important values and it sits at the foundation of everything we do as an organization.
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