Community-Engaged Research
Elevating Youth Voices, Empowering Youth Workers:
Bridging Communities in Ontario, through community-engaged research!
Our Focus
In collaboration with the York Research Chair in Youth and Contexts of Inequity, YouthREX’s Community-Engaged Research activities explore research questions on the experiences of youth and youth workers in contexts of inequity.
We’re interested in understanding how factors that determine youth wellbeing extend beyond the experiences of youth to youth work and larger systemic issues, including institutional relationships.
Research Questions
What issues are youth in Ontario experiencing?
- How have these issues been compounded by COVID?
- How do these issues impact youth that face multiple vulnerabilities (the contexts of inequity)?
- How do youth act/resist/react to these issues? How are they creating ‘spaces’ to participate in (and lead) conversations about their wellbeing?
What are innovative youth work practices on the frontlines for youth that face multiple vulnerabilities (contexts of inequity)?
- What are the systemic issues, gaps, and barriers encountered by youth workers?
- How are youth workers responding to the challenges they are experiencing including COVID?
- How might we engage and leverage ‘systems’ to better support youth and youth workers?
Our Commitment
We're committed to not just conducting research, but to bringing it to life in ways that truly matter. We will share findings from our research activities with our community stakeholders in timely and accessible formats to energize change and action in Ontario’s youth work sector,and also contribute to the youth work knowledge base through academic publications and presentations.
Certificate Programs
Our multi-model comprehensive certificates build the knowledge and skills of youth-serving organization in critical youth work and evaluation so they can improve youth wellbeing.
Workshops
Our workshops build evaluation
and critical youth work capacity:
face-to-face, live online, and self-paced.
Webinars
Interactive online conversations featuring youth workers, young people and researchers.
Knowledge to Action Exchange
Our Knowledge to Action (KtA) Exchange provides opportunities for people across the sector to share their work, discuss key issues, and build relationships with other stakeholders from across Ontario.
Teach-Ins
Our workshops build evaluation
and critical youth work capacity:
face-to-face, live online, and self-paced.
Knowledge to Action Exchange
Our Knowledge to Action (KtA) Exchange provides opportunities for people across the sector to share their work, discuss key issues, and build relationships with other stakeholders from across Ontario.
What's new at Learn by YouthREX
Centering Black Youth Wellbeing: A Certificate on Combatting Anti-Black Racism
This Online Certificate provides the Ontario youth sector with the foundational knowledge to cultivate practices, policies and alliances that challenge, disrupt and combat systematic anti-Black racism.
Cannabis and Youth: A Certifciate for Youth Workers
This free certificate provides youth workers with the knowledge and the tools they need to support informed decision-making, and to educate and increase awareness among young people.
Cannabis and Mental Health
Cannabis and Mental Health is a comprehensive suite of online resources created by youth, for youth, on the mental health impacts of cannabis, at the individual, community, and societal levels. Register for this 90-minute course!
Design Workshop: How to Tell a Story with Data Visualization
Learn how to visualize your data so your stakeholders can easily understand it and retain the information, using principles of accessibility, simplicity and emphasis.
Introduction to Evaluation
This workshop includes two live recorded webinars designed to provide a foundational knowledge of Evaluation for youth programs.
Workshop: Logic Modelling for Intentional Program
Explore how Logic Models can be used to support program design, planning, and evaluation of youth programs.
Virtual Café
Keep the conversation going and connect with others in the Community of Practice on our virtual café. Share your reflections, questions and strategies. We can't wait to hear from you!
Knowledge Hub
Keep learning! We have a wide collection of resources to help you on your learning journey. Browse our list of 1,800+ resources available on the Knowledge Hub.
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