Toronto youth equity strategy

The purpose of this Youth Equity Strategy is to address what the City can do to better serve the needs of this specific popu- This vision requires comprehensive and collaborative action on the part of lation, within its authority to plan, manage, deliver, and advocate. [...] The panel included the City of Toronto can implement now to support youth most vulnerable to representation from a variety of youth serving and youth advocacy organiza- involvement in serious violence and crime. [...] We also undertook a cre- Instead of a big, widespread consultation, we focused on making good use of ative engagement component where youth used photography, video, poetry, all the knowledge that exists in the community, whether in the form of reports song-writing and storytelling to add further understanding to the complexity from careful studies of the issue, the ideas of people who’ve been work [...] The in providing services to youth, and what the City can do to better serve the City of Toronto needs to do more to address this kind of violence, and our in- needs of youth, especially those youth who are the most vulnerable to involve- tention is to develop a strategy specific to gender-based violence in the future ment in serious violence and crime. [...] As the Review of the Roots of Youth Violence report describes, the deep roots “frequently interconnect and intertwine in ways that create devastating cumulative impacts for far too many of our youth.” TYES is built on the understanding that vulnerability to involvement in serious violence and crime comes from both a mix of these deep roots and the complex interactions between a young person’s indi