Post-Exchange Design Day

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Post-Exchange Design Day

By YouthREX | Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange

Date and time

Sat, Oct 29, 2016 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT

Location

York University

4700 Keele Street Kaneff Building, Room 519 Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada

Description

This Post-Exchange Design Day will bring together youth sector stakeholders –youth, youth workers, youth managers, policy makers, funders and citizens to collaboratively tackle four ‘thorny’ challenges that youth and youth workers experience. These four challenges will be redefined as Idea Labs; the goal is to generate new ideas that can inform innovative, outside the box solutions for advancing youth wellbeing on these issues.

The Idea Lab will provide participants with a safe environment to collaboratively work with peers from multiple vantage points in the sector; topic area specialists will be on hand to provide guidance and clarity when needed. Each Idea Lab will share their solutions and recommendations with the entire group for review and feedback. YouthREX will then share these solutions and recommendations widely within the youth sector through a knowledge mobilization strategy crafted around the contributions and outcomes of each Ideas Lab.

This design day is hosted in collaboration with the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Youth Opportunity Fund and MaRS Solutions Lab.

Who will be there? Who can participate?

We invite all stakeholders invested in at least one of the four topics to participate! Stakeholders in each Idea Lab include: youth, youth workers, policy makers, funders and researchers. We will have topic area specialists who will be on hand to provide gentle guidance, feedback and clarity when requested, as well as note takers who will support in harvesting comments, discussion and feedback.

Idea Lab Topics:

  1. Bringing Our Whole Selves: Inclusive Programs With and For Racialized LGBTTQQ2SIA Youth

  2. Indigenizing Youth Work: Towards a New Relationship

  3. Far and Farther: Equitable Access to Programs, Services and Opportunities for Youth Living in Rural and Remote Communities

  4. Beyond the Individual: Collective/Community Approaches to Youth Worker Wellbeing

Learn more! Click here for more information on this day.

For more information on YouthREX and our Provincial Exchange: The Youth. The Work. The System., please visit www.youthrex.com


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