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Adrienne replied to the discussion “#YouthREXat10”: Share Your YouthREX Story! in the forum Storying Youth Work

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:25:30 -0400

Reply to “#YouthREXat10”: Share Your YouthREX Story!

Over the years I have learned so much from YouthREX webinars, resources, and online certificates. Of course it’s always a joy to see so many folks invested in youth wellbeing coming together for a meal and meaningful conversation – something YouthREX has facilitated countless times.

Lately I am often returning to learnings and reflections from…

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Supporting Youth Wellbeing in the Climate Crisis: Critical Understandings and Hopeful Practices - Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange

This webinar was hosted by YouthREX. HERE’S HOW THE HOSTS DESCRIBE THIS WEBINAR: Climate change is a crisis – an urgent political, social, economic, environmental, and existential issue. Youth wellbeing is uniquely impacted by this crisis, as young people have limited access to institutional … Continue reading

Adrienne replied to the discussion How might we draw on research findings to highlight and challenge the impact of anti-Black racism on youth and their families? in the forum Centering Black Youth Wellbeing

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:34:35 -0400

Reply to How might we draw on research findings to highlight and challenge the impact of anti-Black racism on youth and their families?

This section of the course was hugely helpful to me as someone who has studied in depth the root and impact of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism in an American context. It’s so common that Americans assume things are much better in Canada. This information illuminated for me that I have much more to learn about anti-Black research history…

Adrienne replied to the discussion Why is anti-Black racism still a problem in Ontario? in the forum Centering Black Youth Wellbeing

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:29:54 -0400

Reply to Why is anti-Black racism still a problem in Ontario?

For me, it almost always comes down to the system of racial capitalism that we operate within. This system makes it challenging to prioritize community needs as each individual is tasked with supporting themselves. This system also dehumanizes and oppresses people as their contributions and existence are commodified, and those who…

Adrienne replied to the discussion Let’s dream and envision programs and services where Black youth are not experiencing anti-Black racism. How might we move beyond identifying the service needs and gaps Black youth face, to pro-actively designing pathways to inclusion in the youth sector? in the forum Centering Black Youth Wellbeing

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:23:08 -0400

Reply to Let’s dream and envision programs and services where Black youth are not experiencing anti-Black racism. How might we move beyond identifying the service needs and gaps Black youth face, to pro-actively designing pathways to inclusion in the youth sector?

Thanks for posing this question! One structure that I have found to embed youth within organizations to influence decision making is through youth advisory boards/councils/groups. Of course, these programs are susceptible to the same power structures and harmful normative practice that tokenize and de-value youth voice. However, with careful…