Youth Empowerment
Empowering young individuals through workshops, mentorship, and community activities.
Youth Empowerment Services
Inspiring Young People
CAFCAN’s Youth Services strive to cultivate the potential of young people by equipping them with the necessary skills and resources for success. The programs promote a sense of responsibility, confidence, and resilience among youth through workshops, mentorship opportunities, and community engagement activities.
By fostering a sense of belonging and empowerment, CAFCAN’s Youth Services aim to inspire young people to become proactive members of their communities, contributing positively to society at large.
Ultimately, CAFCAN’s vision is to nurture a generation of confident, capable, and compassionate leaders who are ready to face the challenges of the future with optimism and determination.
Lift As We Rise
The program creates a safe and supportive environment that values the ideas and contributions of all participants/students, promoting autonomy, developing accountability, self-reflection and critical thinking. Participants/students are invited to contribute their creativity, develop their artistic expression, tap into their inner strength through culturally affirming, arts-based practices while incorporating a social justice lens.
Storytelling, poetry, responsive writing, and movement exploration are some of the artistic expressions which are explored. Participants/students will be assigned to a partner or small groups working to the maturation and development of self-confidence, building community and develop an awareness of one’s cultural identity as it informs life today.
Through group discussions, self-reflection and activities children will learn to define themselves as leaders and improve their relationships with the school community and beyond.
Together we Can
The Ujima Mentorship Youth Program works within a multidisciplinary Team. A partnership with the Toronto District School Boards to ensure that youth aged 2-15 who identify as Black are matched with caring adult mentors.
These mentors develop positive and supportive one-on-one relationships with the students and help with their transition to secondary school as well as in developing a positive cultural identity.
The program focuses on building skills, education while addressing issues of trauma; secondly and most importantly to help parents, mother’s specifically understand the impact of trauma on their children/parenting.
Some participants who have completed this group and participated in counselling have demonstrated improvements resulting in some of the children who were apprehended successfully returned to their care.
Provincial Youth Outreach Worker Program (PYOW)
The YOW Program is a prevention and intervention program that helps at-risk youth and high-risk youth and their families better navigate and connect with services and pro-social opportunities in their communities to improve youth outcomes as these youth may experience increased barriers in accessing opportunities that can help them develop their capacity to make healthy life choices and achieve their goals.
