From February 16 – March 3, the Inspiring Healthy Futures (#WeCANforKids) initiative will be holding eight focused planning sessions (called “Strategy Hives”) around the key themes. In each, we will be developing an agenda for what we can do right now as well as priorities for long term planning. Each Hive will build on the previous ones, leaving us with a robust, multi-faceted plan we can begin right away.

Each session will be a dynamic, interactive experience, focusing both on mobilizing communities to change policy and transform knowledge into action to support kids and youth through this crisis, and creating the new research, collaborations and structures that will set them up for a thriving future.

Strategy Hive #1 Inspiring Healthy Futures: Hope for a brighter future

Youth today are faced with a myriad of challenges that have been amplified by the pandemic. Pressure to succeed, uncertainty about employment and career, finding direction in the context of racial and other structural inequities, deep anxiety about the state of the world, climate change and a profound desire to have a voice in the future of our country weigh heavily on youth across Canada.

Join us for this Strategy Hive where we will explore how we can grow a sense of hope for children and youth so they feel they can meaningfully influence their current lives and their futures. In this session we will identify clear short and long term priorities for knowledge/research, programs/services and other actions that will support their success and build child and youth voices into decision making about their world.

*The session will be conducted in English. Captioning will be available.