Testing an innovative model to increase resiliency in youth
The City of Toronto has invested significant resources in understanding how to address and support communities, especially youth, impacted by violence and trauma. While recognizing that youth who are exposed to violence in their communities are vulnerable to becoming involved in violence themselves.
The Community Healing Project for Crime Prevention and Intervention (CHP) is an innovative approach that aims to prevent community violence and address its impacts on communities. The project offers skill-building in the areas of mental health literacy and resiliency for youth in Toronto. Through this project, trained and certified young people (Peer Healers) deliver workshops and provide supports to other youth in their communities who are vulnerable to involvement in gangs and violence. The five-year project is a partnership between the City of Toronto, Stella’s Place, and local service providers. The initiative is funded by Public Safety Canada as part of their National Crime Prevention Strategy.
Blueprint was engaged to design and execute an evidence generation approach that would engage all partners and generate meaningful and actionable insights about the outcomes and implementation of the project. We are working in collaboration with the City and Stella’s Place to design and implement and evaluate CHP in a way that reflects the strengths and the needs of youth involved.
As part of the process, we are exploring participatory evaluation approaches that directly involve peer healers in leading focus groups and developing surveys. The findings from our evaluation will assess how effective CHP is in improving internal and external protective factors for youth impacted by violence and trauma, and inform the continuous improvement and adaptation of the model.
The City of Toronto has invested significant resources in understanding how to address and support communities, especially youth, impacted by violence and trauma. While recognizing that youth who are exposed to violence in their communities are vulnerable to becoming involved in violence themselves.
The Community Healing Project for Crime Prevention and Intervention (CHP) is an innovative approach that aims to prevent community violence and address its impacts on communities. The project offers skill-building in the areas of mental health literacy and resiliency for youth in Toronto. Through this project, trained and certified young people (Peer Healers) deliver workshops and provide supports to other youth in their communities who are vulnerable to involvement in gangs and violence. The five-year project is a partnership between the City of Toronto, Stella’s Place, and local service providers. The initiative is funded by Public Safety Canada as part of their National Crime Prevention Strategy.
Blueprint was engaged to design and execute an evidence generation approach that would engage all partners and generate meaningful and actionable insights about the outcomes and implementation of the project. We are working in collaboration with the City and Stella’s Place to design and implement and evaluate CHP in a way that reflects the strengths and the needs of youth involved.
As part of the process, we are exploring participatory evaluation approaches that directly involve peer healers in leading focus groups and developing surveys. The findings from our evaluation will assess how effective CHP is in improving internal and external protective factors for youth impacted by violence and trauma, and inform the continuous improvement and adaptation of the model.
The Responsive Career Pathways Research Brief consolidates key findings from our past 9 research papers in partnership with the Future Skills Centre. In this brief, we outline key innovation challenges and opportunities for career guidance services in Canada, and highlight common barriers to accessing these services.
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Career guidance systems could be designed with a whole-of-person lens. This paper considers promising practices in breaking down barriers to career guidance for Canadians.
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Adult learners have to navigate an increasingly diverse, fragmented and complex education and training marketplace. This paper assesses options helping Canadian learners navigate their education and learning choices.
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The path to accessing career guidance is challenging for racialized people, women and newcomers to Canada. This paper offers opportunities to strengthen our publicly-funded employment systems to effectively address labour market inequity.
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Employers are critical in establishing more responsive career pathways for Canadians. This paper outlines some of the challenges and opportunities employers are facing related to the future of work and skills.
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Career development practitioners have a critical role to play in helping Canadians prepare for the future of work. This paper tackles questions about the role of career development practitioners and the evolution of their practice.
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Offering forward-looking, customized, high-quality and accessible career guidance to a wide range of Canadians is possible. This paper identifies behavioural and motivational barriers to accessing career guidance and offers a promising path ahead.
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The role and use of technologies that help individuals and career practitioners navigate career pathways are rapidly evolving. This paper outlines potential ways responsive career pathways can be enabled by technology.
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This document provides consistent definitions for the terms that are applied across all of the research papers for the Responsive Career Pathways initiative.
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This paper offers considerations for strengthening and aligning our careers and employment systems to better serve Canadians across their career trajectory.
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Finding ways to make labour market information accessible and useful for service providers and individuals is key for creating more responsive career pathways.
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