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The Youth Media Alliance (YMA) seeks to enrich the lives of Canadian children and teens by helping improve the quality of the content created for them on all screen-based media.  In pursuing its mission, the Alliance encourageshigh-quality content by presenting annual awards of excellence to the best productions targeting young English- and French-speaking Canadians. It offers ongoing training tailored to the special needs of youth production professionals through workshops, seminars, and special events such as the Children, Youth & Media and Média-Jeunes conferences. It also offers membership benefits with rabates to entry fees to major events organized in the industry. For more information, choose an event from the dropdown menu.

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Montreal, November 27, 2024 - YMA invites the youth media community to a cross-Canada forum, presented virtually in English and French, to discuss the realities and challenges we face, on December 12, 2024 from 2 to 4 p.m. and/or to submit a discussion paper by December 10, 2024.  

Montreal, November 27, 2024 - YMA invites the youth media community to a cross-Canada forum, presented virtually in English and French, to discuss the realities and challenges we face, on December 12, 2024 from 2 to 4 p.m. and/or to submit a discussion paper by December 10, 2024.  

With multiple consultations taking place across Canada in the coming months, YMA believes it must contribute to the conversation. As an organization, we represent the interests of our young audience as well as all members of the creative community. 

We invite our members and people from the industry to share the issues you face in this virtual meeting. YMA is here to represent the need for high-quality, age-appropriate youth content created, produced and presented by Canadians. As the industry contracts and the regulatory environment undergoes enormous change, it's time to remind everyone of the unique needs and interests of children and youth media. 

We invite anyone in the children's media industry who would like to contribute, to share your ideas, concerns and concrete solutions for the future of our industry. 

  • By participating in the virtual meeting on December 12, 2024, and/or   
  • By submitting their contribution in the form of a document before December 10, 2024.  

Program

  • An conversation with Agnes Augustin, CEO – Shaw Rocket Fund: Putting Children Last - Three ways the industry can fight for kids programming and be responsive to the needs or both the market and future generations. (https://kidscreen.com/2024/09/13/opinion-putting-children-last/) – in English 
  • Breakout groups for a discussion based on questions on funding, discoverability and quality content – in English and/or French 

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