Michelle Martin is the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington. She primarily teaches students who will be youth services librarians […]

In 2022, the Communities Ending Poverty network raised the following question: How can we engage youth as leaders in poverty reduction efforts?
Strategies for Engaging Youth
Communities Ending Poverty […]

The looming recession climate is causing concerns over skyrocketing student debt. On top of a deeply unaffordable housing market, these factors call for universities to be more relevant in terms of preparing […]

Due to frequently shifting public health measures and the resulting isolation experienced by many youth during the pandemic, more and more young people are reporting issues with their mental health, and the […]

YouthREX collaborated with students at Brock University, reflecting on their experience within community placements. In this reflection, a student discusses the unique skills and competencies she adopted […]

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, young people across Ontario have had to go without opportunities for outdoor education, which had detrimental effects on their wellbeing. Studies have shown that […]

The purpose of evaluation activities is to assess not just what we are doing and how we are doing it but also who we are serving. This data can help ensure that we are effectively reaching and supporting the […]

As we enter another year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are beginning to recognize the longer-term impacts of this “new normal.” Understandably, most of the initial focus was on rates of infection and mor […]

Recent overt attacks against Muslims in London, Ont., Hamilton and Edmonton have surfaced and exacerbated the fear that Canadian Muslims have been living with for many years.

A few weeks ago, I […]

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
One way to examine a teacher’s personal connection to their students’ community is to ask them to create a hand-drawn map, bas […]

Writing about trauma can affect us profoundly.

A 1986 study found that students asked to write about traumatic memories reduced the number of times they visited a health centre for illness, injury, a check-up, […]

In Canada, COVID-19 has exacerbated long-standing institutional and systemic inequalities for disabled people. And these inequalities are rooted in ableism.

Ableism represents beliefs, social practices and […]

This past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted learning for more than 1.6 billion students in over 190 countries. With movement between bricks-and-mortar schools and online learning becoming the “new n […]

“The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it — at no matter what risk. This is the only hope society has. This is the only way soc […]

Health and government officials around the globe are slowly and ever-so-tentatively moving to relax lockdowns due to coronavirus.

In Canada, where the possibility of health-care collapse seems to have been […]

The internet can be an ugly place, especially for young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or queer. Cyberbullying is difficult to combat, because the bullies are often anonymous. And toxic […]

Last week, the Ontario government announced its plan to end streaming in Grade 9, something Education Minister Stephen Lecce acknowledged is a “racist, discriminatory” practice.

Streaming refers to the pra […]

My name is Bailey Gallinger. I am a fourth-year student in Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock University. I recently completed a placement with the Young Caregivers Association, an organization that […]

My name is Ashley Romano (she/her). I am a fourth-year student in Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock University. I recently engaged in a placement with Ability Online… MyAbility.ca, an online social m […]

Girls are constantly told to smile, from T-shirts sold in stores that say “everyone loves a happy girl” to the catcallers telling young women to smile when they walk down the street.

Audrey Hepburn once fam […]