New to the Knowledge Hub!

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

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.

Asian Youth

Browse this collection of resources to support your work with Asian youth.

May is Asian Heritage Month, and we're highlighting a variety of resources that amplify the voices of Asian youth, and challenge all forms of anti-Asian racism.

Please get in touch with our team if you can recommend additional resources that may be relevant to this collection.

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.

Cannabis Use

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

As of October 2018, recreational cannabis is legal 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. 

Indigenous Youth

Browse this collection of resources to support your work with Indigenous youth.

The violence of settler-colonialism on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children, youth, and communities is not a thing of the past – it is current and ongoing. We recognize that youth workers have a personal and professional responsibility to acknowledge and challenge this violence.

Economic Empowerment of Black Youth

Browse this collection of resources to support the economic empowerment of Black youth, including those developed as part of the Outcomes Framework for the Economic Empowerment of Black Youth in Ontario.

The Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism launched a Request for Proposals in February 2022 under the Economic Empowerment Stream of the Black Youth Action Plan to support Black youth in achieving social and economic success.

To support community stakeholders in building a shared understanding of evidence-based interventions and outcomes under this economic empowerment stream, YouthREX developed the Outcomes Framework for the Economic Empowerment of Black Youth in Ontario.

This collection is also available in French.

COVID-19

Browse this collection of resources to support you and your work, and the young people in your community, during this difficult time. You can also access this list of helpful resources and supports for youth, youth workers, families, and communities.

You can also browse this additional collection of past conversations from our series, The Relentless Pursuit of Better Youth Outcomes: Reimagining Youth Work in a COVID-19 Era.

We recognize that this is a universally personal, dynamic, and challenging time for everyone. Please get in touch with our team if can we offer any additional supports.

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.