• The quality standard for youth engagement describes nine principles that contribute to high-quality youth engagement. The standard details background, rationale, best practices and practical approaches for each principle, and defines what each one means for young people, agencies and decision makers.

    Walking the talk: A toolkit for engaging youth in mental health will give you a better understanding of how youth engagement can directly benefit youth, service areas and communities in Ontario's child and youth mental health sector. We've designed it to highlight the benefits, help you implement youth engagement initiatives in your agency and showcase the many youth engagement success stories from across the province.

  • Aura Freedom's work and this Info Hub focus on human trafficking that involves sexual exploitation, also known as sex trafficking.

    A grassroots hub of information and resources to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Canada.

 

  • U-Report is a digital platform for youth that asks poll questions to get their perspectives on issues and decisions that affect them. It is an opportunity for young people to be part of the change they want to see in Canada and speak out on issues that matter to them. U-Report Canada is free, confidential, and open to anyone ages 13-24. Visit www.ureportcanada.ca to learn more.

    U-Report est une plateforme de sondage numérique où les jeunes donnent leur point de vue en répondant à des questions sur les sujets et les décisions qui les touchent. C’est une occasion pour les jeunes de contribuer aux changements qu’ils souhaitent voir se produire au Canada et de s’exprimer sur les questions qui comptent pour eux. U-Report Canada est une plateforme gratuite et confidentielle, et s’adresse à tous les jeunes âgés de 13 à 24 ans. Visitez www.ureportcanada.ca pour en savoir plus.

  • The Pan Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health’s (JCSH) Youth Engagement (YE) Toolkit (2018) was developed for JCSH by The Students Commission of Canada and is intended to:

    Help communicate the importance of youth engagement as a key approach to implementing comprehensive school health;

    Provide research and rationale for practicing youth engagement in schools, school boards and districts, government ministries, health regions and community organizations;

    Provide a “how-to” resource of effective practices to support youth engagement in these contexts.

 

  • For the month of February 2021 NYAC hosted Project Blue – a fundraiser and awareness campaign exploring the intersections of mental and physical health.

    Throughout the month we offered online events, raffled off prizes, pursued wellness goals, and shared evidence-based health resources.

    You can read more about Project Blue in the tab under “Our Work” above. We have also provided access to the resource book created as part of this campaign, here.

 

  • In this section, you will find recordings of webinars that they have produced in the past, and information about their upcoming webinars. These online conferences, often presented by experts in the field, tackle a variety of subjects that are relevant to the work of programmers. Additionally, they share their infographics series “Why Girls?” that put numbers on the issues that pertain to girls in Canada. Finally, their rich Resource Center puts at your disposition all of their publications on girls and young women.

 

  • Team Leader: Jeanna Parsons Leigh

    Our ongoing child and youth focused program of work including three families as primary applicants is centered on understanding the multifaceted impacts of the pandemic and related policies on the wellbeing of Canadian youth and families to promote wellbeing and decision making, and to inform public health policies relevant to this priority population. To facilitate the effective dissemination, uptake, and retained memory of our work, we have partnered from inception with five leading organizations in Canada, including YCRH, to directly inform their policies and programs. The policy implications from the knowledge synthesis phase of this program of research that has already been completed, include that legislation, policy, and programming should be evidence-informed, data-driven, and reflective of need. We also recommended that improving all aspects of youth wellbeing will require increased availability and access to quality data across sectors. While actions aimed at single issues are necessary and may seem simpler to implement, systemic change that upholds fundamental child rights will lead to sustainable improvement in the overall wellbeing of all children and youth.

 

  • What is RISE?

    An initiative under Canada Service Corps, RISE helps young people co-create community projects and contribute in strengthening our civic and democratic fabric by engaging on topics that interest them. RISE is developing projects in seven cities across Canada: Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax and Vancouver.

    What is BUILD?

    Even though young people are at the forefront of many social and political movements, we’re still vastly underrepresented in positions of power where we can create change at a policy level. As issues such as climate change and systemic racism threaten and disadvantage diverse young people, it’s critical that we be influential participants in the institutions and processes that will affect our future. We need innovative solutions born from intersectional collaboration and research literally shows nobody is hardwired to innovate like youth. BUILD equips young people with advanced and actionable civic knowledge, skills and networks to effectively advocate for change at the institutional level, far beyond the ballot box. By the end of the program, you’ll have a keen understanding of the frontlines of Canada’s democratic system and be better prepared to engage with it.

 

  • The Children and Youth Planning Table (CYPT) is a community-wide partnership that includes over 800 service providers, researchers, planning bodies, and funders serving children, youth, and families in Waterloo Region. Their Resources page contains resources, links, PDFs, etc. created both by the Children and Youth Planning Table and partner organizations.

 

  • The impact of unaddressed trauma, substance use disorder, and parenting practices has negative consequences on children. However, the evidence suggests that stigma contributes to this harm, resulting in parents and their offspring being under supported, increasing the risk for the cycle of stress and SUD repeating itself generationally. To mitigate the risk to children and prevent the cycle of stress and SUD, we must increase trust between impacted families and current systems, connect both parent and child to their community, and address underlying mental health issues in both parent and child. See the A New Path Forward Report here.

 

  • From October 26-28, 2021, over 200 attendees united at Frayme’s #IYS2021 Knowledge Series to discuss themes of service gaps, data standardization and collection, and a future path for Integrated Youth Services (IYS) in Canada. This Knowledge Series gave space for diverse voices from across sites and regions to share their approaches and insights on IYS and work together to identify system recommendations for a path forward. Following the Knowledge Series, Frayme reviewed the ignitor statements, panel discussions and breakout room conversations and extracted 7 key concepts that were heard across the 3 days.

 

  • We believe there are multiple pathways to employment prosperity, but central to all of them is the need for young people to influence and shape how they connect and engage in work. Ultimately, we embrace collaborative and supportive approaches that connect leaders, youth, and resources at local, regional, and national levels to enhance the range of youth opportunities.

    We want to break down the barriers that prevent youth from making meaningful connections to the labour market. These barriers impact youth employment but can intersect with education, health, and social inclusion. By building a network of diverse youth across Canada, we can ensure youth are involved directly in solutions that affect them.

    Check out their current youth opportunities, especially the latest Canadian Gap Year Association (CanGap) Youth Advisory Committee opportunity.

 

  • The GenWell Project is a Canadian Human Connection Movement, that is working to educate thirty-eight million Canadians about the importance of their social connections to their health, happiness, longevity and the betterment of society. Each day we share tips, tools, ideas and research in order to educate, empower and catalyze Canadians to be more conscious and intentional about their social health, for their own benefit or for the benefit of those they connect with. Together we can make the world a happier and healthier place for all one face-to-face conversation at a time.

 

  • Canada Confesses is an online-based project exposing the injustices in Canada and those abroad that Canada is responsible for.

    We amplify individuals and organizations working to solve social inequalities. We are creating a movement that makes Canadians more aware of the issues in their nation and connects them with resources and tools to act.