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Browse this collection for the latest resources created and curated by YouthREX. Updated monthly! 

Gender-Based Violence

November 25th marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the start of 16 Days of Activism (November 25 to December 10), a global campaign to end gender-based violence. The 2025 theme is UNiTE to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls.

Youth workers play an important role in preventing violence against girls and young women and gender-diverse individuals, providing support to survivors and promoting gender equity and healthy relationships. This responsibility includes increasing awareness of gender-based violence, building knowledge informed by research, practice, and lived experiences, and striving to shift beliefs and actions that sustain cycles of violence.

Explore this collection to deepen your understanding of preventing and addressing gender-based violence and supporting digital resilience. Visit the Learning Network for more resources and supports (YouthREX is a member of the Provincial Advisory Group).

Evaluation Reports by YouthREX

Browse this collection of reports developed by or in partnership with members of the YouthREX team.

YouthREX’s Customized Evaluation Supports meet youth-serving organizations where their evaluation capacity is, and are responsive to program needs, working collaboratively to co-create evaluation processes and meaningfully engaging youth. YouthREX adheres to high ethical standards and commits fully to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Cannabis Use

Browse this collection of toolkits, factsheets, and reports that offer insight into cannabis legalization, harm reduction, and strategies to help youth and youth workers navigate conversations about cannabis use.

October 2025 marks the seventh anniversary of cannabis legalization in Canada. Youth workers and service providers in the sector are in a unique position to provide important information to young people who may be using—or thinking about using—cannabis. 

What's With Weed?

We're excited to share a redesigned What's With Weed webpage! We collaborated with a variety of partners — including young people! — to create this youth-friendly one-stop-shop on cannabis.

Browse this related collection of over 40 youth-friendly resources about cannabis, including its effects, safer use practices, facts on legalization, as well as its history and social impacts.

This collection is also available in French.

French-Language Resources

Browse this collection of Knowledge Hub resources available in French.

You can also check out our French-language Featured Collections: L'herbe, c'est quoi ? and L'autonomisation économique des jeunes Noirs.

Be sure to visit our French-language platform for learning opportunities, Apprendre par YouthREX.

Pathways to Education

Browse this collection of research summaries, bibliographies, and reports from our colleagues at Pathways to Education Canada.

Pathways to Education provides youth from low-income communities with the resources and supports to graduate from high school and build the foundation for a successful future.

Through their innovative, community-based approach, students receive four important, wraparound areas of support—academic, financial, social, and one-on-one—which include programming and incentives like after-school tutoring, mentoring, networking opportunities, transit passes to get to and from school, and scholarships for post-secondary education.

Provincial Advocate for Children & Youth

Browse this collection of critical resources developed by the Provincial Advocate for Children & Youth, or visit their online archives.

Established in 2007, the Ontario Child Advocate was an independent office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and their work was guided by the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. On November 15, 2018, the provincial government announced that they would be repealing the Provincial Advocate for Children & Youth Act and would be closing the Advocate’s Office. As of May 1, 2019, the Advocate’s Office is closed.