Events
Take Our Kids to Work 2026
Take Our Kids to Work (TOKW) is Canada’s leading career-exploration program, providing young people with meaningful opportunities to experience the world of work, discover diverse career pathways, and connect their learning to future possibilities. To access resources and join the live event register below.
Against the Current Workshop Series
Join us for an upcoming workshop or schedule a workshop with us! Workshops feature tried and true frameworks, activities, and tools, each validated coast-to-coast-to-coast with communities and organizations over our 35+ years of youth engagement expertise.
Workshops are for practitioners, researchers, decision-makers, and youth leaders. NOTE: These workshops are offered in ENGLISH ONLY.
Upcoming Virtual Workshops
Virtual workshops are 1 hour and cost $50 per workshop! Spots are limited, so sign up soon!
Community Strategy Development
September 3 (Thursday) 12pm PST / 3pm EST
For coalitions and communities at the drawing board or seeking to deepen community strategy! This workshop dives into creating a shared vision, centering youth voice and contribution, and generating adult buy-in.
Facilitator: Christa Romaldi (Chief Development Officer) has worked alongside numerous communities and organizational collaboratives to design and implement strategies, including youth engagement strategies, youth violence prevention strategies, and community building strategies that focus on youth wellbeing.
Register Here!Your Youth Engagement Starter Pack
September 24 (Thursday) 12pm PST/3pm EST
This workshop explores foundations of youth engagement and activities for all issues, groups of young people, and settings (digital, in-person). Walk away with a template for structuring new programs and re-energizing existing groups, and techniques for navigating challenging discussions and fostering inclusive participation.
Facilitator: Kaitlin Power (Skills Development Coordinator) who brings 10+ years sparking and sustaining engagement among diverse groups young people across educational, community, and virtual settings. Kaitlin is masterful at real-time adaptations of planned activities to meet emergent needs.
Register Here!Upcoming Toronto Workshops
Community Building and Culture Shifting
September 17 1pm-4:30pm EST at our Toronto Youth Centre (23 Isabella Street)
This workshop series unpacks how to work with youth who have been marginalized, explores rewriting community narratives, and moving toward more inclusive and safe spaces. Workshops center around values-rooted programming and how community partnerships can change systems and communities.
This workshop costs $75 per person.
Facilitators:
Abdi Mohamud (Associate Director of Program Delivery and Culture) brings over 20 years of experience in critical youth work informed by Afrocentric values. He provides strategic and operational leadership for programs addressing root causes impacting communities, while advancing an organizational culture grounded in equity, care, and shared leadership.
Chantelle Edwards (Toronto Community Lead) runs virtual and in-person youth programming spanning cultural curiosity, youth leadership development, and creating safer spaces where young people can find belonging and community. An integral part of her approach is building relationships and giving youth a space to feel heard, which opens doors to new perspectives and deeper understanding across diverse experiences.
Register Here!Schedule a Workshop
Schedule a virtual or in-person workshop for your organization, community, or project. We offer a suite of workshops that we can tailor around your young people and context spanning: - Youth leadership development - Adult Ally training - Participatory action research - Mental and holistic health and substance misuse - Healthy relationships and gender-based violence prevention - Grievance-based violence prevention
Contact Us
Contact us at info@studentscommission.ca to schedule a workshop or learn more!
Event Services
Our team can work with you and your organization to plan, develop, execute and evaluate your entire event. One of our strengths in youth-focused event planning and management is being able to quickly, efficiently, and effectively bring together everything needed to ensure the success of your program.
Workshops
We work with partners and youth to deliver interactive capacity building opportunities for all audiences. Workshops are tailored for audiences based on the content shared.
Conferences
We deliver one to seven day conferences for youth and adult allies. The conferences are geared to generating and influencing community and systems level changes through direct youth recommendations and the development of community action projects.
Sharing the Stories Knowledge Exchanges
An opportunity for youth, adult allies and academics to come together to review the research and trends generated from the Sharing the Stories research and evaluation platform.
Fine-Grain Interactions
The one-to-one or one-to-a-few interactions between youth and/or between youth and adults. These interactions accumulate and can often result in bottom-up changes to policies and programs. We foster these interactions by working with other partners to create organic spaces and places for youth and/or adults to connect with one another. We support weekly youth groups across our network of partners.