Receives Funding For “After School Broadcast Training & Mentoring Program” From The CRFC

CJLO is very happy to announce that we have received funding from the Community Radio Fund of Canada for a second year to run our After School Mentorship Program for local highschool students. CJLO has been awarded $6,389 to fund the program and will seek up to ten high school students in the community between the ages of 16 and 18 to take part.

Back for a secon year, the program will immerse students in a hands-on, technical environment; teaching them the skills and motivation necessary to achieve success in the field of broadcasting. The students will work closely on a weekly basis with CJLO staff in different departments to learn all of the different elements in creating a radio program with the end goal of producing a two-hour show that will air at the end of the program.

CJLO is thrilled to be awarded this funding and to be able to offer the After School program for a second year. Last year's program saw eight students from various schools come together weekly to learn the skills and techniques involved in putting together a radio broadcast. The students worked with CJLO staff who mentored them through the process and at the end of the program presented several short radio documentaries on topics that were important and interesting to them and their peers.
 
CRFC President John Harris Stevenson agrees. "The Community Radio Fund is all about supporting programming that matters to people in your town, your village, your neighbourhood. I'm very happy that the fund has been able to contribute to so many amazing community projects again this year.”
 
The CRFC supports more than 150 licensed campus and community radio stations across Canada. Its programs aim to strengthen local news and community programming, promote local music and emerging artists, support emerging distribution technologies as well as sustainability of community radio stations to effectively serve their local communities.

On behalf of everyone at CJLO we would like to thank the members of the CRFC for this opportunity and their continued support!

For more information about the CRFC and all of its recipients, please visit www.communityradiofund.org.
 
To find out more about last year's program and to hear the final broadcast, please visit www.cjlo.com/afterschool.

For the full press release please click here.