Halton Hills is a Youth Friendly Community

The Town of Halton Hills was officially recognized as a Youth Friendly Community at a presentation ceremony held at Queen's Park on Monday October 4th,2010. This is a prestigious award for our community and I give kudos to our Mayor's Youth Action Committee ( MYAC ) for perseverance in getting this award.

Halton Hills is one of only 6 municipalities being honored that night. There is only about 32 communities out of 440 in Ontario to have this designation. There are 16 criteria to be reached and we reached 12. Myself and Councillor Moya Johnson were on hand for the ceremony presided by the Honourable Margaret Best, Minister of Health Promotions.


Being awarded a youth friendly community is a great testimony to know that so many initiatives Council supported over the past few terms around youth engagement have been right on the mark.

Councillor Johnson also noted " engaging youth in shaping our community is not only important for youth, it is important to all of us as they will be the leaders of tomorrow. "

The best speaker of all of the Youth Awards was are own Chair of MYAC Zuha Khan. She stated, "I believe that the Town of Halton Hills is a youth friendly community, because they are always proud of their youth's efforts and manage to encourage, support, congratulate and celebrate every achievement."

There were many of our MYAC members there and they did us proud wearing their bright red MYAC shirts. They looked like a team. All members of council are proud of our MYAC committee!