Creating a Caring Community (CCC) was an open community forum designed to promote Supporting our Youth and to bring community development issues into the open.

CCC was held at the 519 Community Centre on Monday October 5th, 1998 and it generated provocative and thoughtful discussions within our community on the subject of adult support of youth and relationships between adults and youth. One hundred community members attended the forum and two community media leaders continued the discussion on a broader base.

Panelists featured were:
Rachel Giese - Xtra magazine
Julie White - The Trillium Foundation
Sarah Stanley - Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
James Anderson - Mr. Leatherman Toronto 1998
Jennifer Miller - Ontario Young People's Alliance
Debbie Douglas - The Inside Out Film & Video Festival
Kristyn Wong-Tam - Associate Broker, Coldwell-Banker
Robert Nelder - Supporting Our Youth
Koji Nakamachi - Toronto Separate School Board, SOY

Bev Lepischak - the SOY supervisor - was the moderator.

After the event, Xtra! Magazine published a copy of Koji Nakamachi's speech and CITY-TV used footage of this event for their October 18th episode of The Q-Files. The Q-Files used this footage to introduce a panel discussion on role models for gay and straight youth.