Our vision is an Ontario where shared knowledge is transformed into positive impact for all youth!
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Welcome to YouthREX
Youth Research & Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX) is a province-wide initiative based at the School of Social Work at York University in Toronto. We support Ontario's youth workers and youth-serving sector through shared knowledge, capacity building, and evaluation leadership.
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CENTERING BLACK YOUTH WELLBEING
A Certificate on Combatting Anti-black Racism
A free 6-week online certificate that provides the Ontario youth sector with the foundational knowledge to cultivate practices, policies and alliances that challenge, disrupt and combat systematic anti-Black racism.
Registration Deadline: December 12, 2022
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CENTRER LE BIEN-ÊTRE DES JEUNES NOIRS
Un Certificat Pour Combattre Le Racisme Anti-Noirs
Un certificat en ligne gratuit de 6 semaines Ce certificat offre au secteur de la jeunesse en Ontario les connaissances de base pour élaborer des pratiques et des politiques et tisser des alliances qui remettent en question, déstabilisent et combattent le racisme anti-Noirs.
Date limite d'inscription : : 12 décembre 2022
Economic Empowerment of Black Youth in Ontario
What could transformative economic empowerment for Black youth in Ontario look like? We built a roadmap for how we can get there, together.
Teach-In Recordings coming soon!
Hacking Deficit Thinking: Reframing Strength-Based Practices and Equity in Schools
The presenters and performance were incredible, and your energy and engagement today goes to show how dedicated the sector is in prioritizing and learning about equity-informed strength-based approaches to support mental health and wellbeing for youth across Ontario (and beyond!). 🌟
Asking About Gender: Youth Worker Toolkit
We partnered with LGBT YouthLine to develop a toolkit that breaks down assumptions about gender, and we co-hosted a webinar for the youth-serving sector to interrogate and challenge how we understand gender and how we engage with gender in our youth work.
What's With Weed
We are excited to share a redesigned What's With Weed webpage! We collaborated with a variety of partners — including young people! — to redesign a youth-friendly one-stop-shop on everything they might ask about cannabis and cannabis use.
Cannabis & Youth: A Certificate for Youth Workers
A self-guided online professional development certificate that provides youth workers with evidence-based information on the health, social and legal risks associated with cannabis use.
Community Spotlight
“YouthREX has a unique ability to be able to take that academic knowledge and background and distill it in a way that actually makes practical sense to the people that we are doing the work for." Provincial Youth Outreach Worker Program
Learn how we collaborated with these organizations to fill in the gaps so they could amplify their engagement with youth more meaningfully.
OUR WORK AT A GLANCE
Our vision is an Ontario where shared knowledge is transformed into a positive impact for all youth! Learn about the resources, programs and services we provide to support the Ontario youth sector.
Our four program objectives:
CREATING & CURATING RESOURCES
01. Knowledge Exchange
We create and curate evidence-based resources, including toolkits, factsheets, and research summaries, to support youth work practice, and amplify the voices and experiences of young people and diverse youth sector stakeholders through in-person and online events.
LEARNING TOGETHER
02. Learn by YouthRex
We offer professional development opportunities for youth workers to learn, connect, and share – both online and offline. Our Learn opportunities span mental health, cannabis use, working against anti-Black racism, anti-oppressive practice, program evaluation, and more!
FILLING IN THE GAP
03. Customized Evaluation Supports
We work with youth programs to support the design, development, and evaluation of their work with young people. Book a 1-on-1 call today to discuss any of our FREE customized services for youth programs!
RESEARCH PROJECT
04. Community-Engaged Research
We conduct Community-Engaged Research about youth and youth workers in Ontario. Our first project, the Ontario Youth Sector Compass, was completed in November 2021 and seeks to understand the experiences of young people and youth workers in Ontario.
REX BLOG
A space for Ontario’s youth sector to reflect and
engage with issues affecting Ontario youth.
Our Community Partners
Transforming the Field Education Project
Visions of Science
LIGHT
Community Music Schools of Toronto
Assembly of Seven Generations
Better Beginnings Better Futures
The Reading Partnership
Strides Toronto
Delta Family Resource Centre
Canopy Growth
Cannabis & Psychosis
School Mental Health Ontario
Connex Youth Mentorship
Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute
Indigenous Youth Voices
Youth In Politics
