Initiatives

Courageous Conversation

Each month CYS staff engage in conversations about confronting racial discrimination. This initiative challenges staff to reflect on their own bias and prejudice and how it impacts the work we engage in. The intention is for our staff to start or continue to disrupt the systems and barriers that hold the students we work with back.

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This video is an example of a Courageous Conversation. Feel free to view it and use the content to engage in your own courageous conversations.

ENJOY!!

If you are interested in doing some self-reflecting, please use the reflection question in this document as a starting point: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQT72QpCHlFIeZRug6GoDpzbOXUbdQQ03uOaUv1n_pj6fEaG4lgqtsqqffal79Au_UWFb93YTSBWw42/pub

The Child and Youth Services Poster Contest

in support of Children’s Mental Health Week

In 2015, members of the Child and Youth Services Team came together and organized a poster contest for all TDSB students. The goal of the poster contest is to raise awareness of mental health, reduce the stigma, and support one another.

We have held the poster contest every year since during Children’s Mental Health Week. Each year we choose a different theme that supports Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing.

We are grateful to all of the school communities and students who have participated. We love your creativity and the beautiful art you create when you express yourselves.

Together we can raise awareness of mental health, reduce the stigma, and support one another!

2024 Child and Youth Services Poster Contest

"Your Path to Joy"

We are happy to share the information for this years poster contest in support of children’s mental health week.

Children's Mental Health Week is May 6-10, 2024. This year our theme is all about finding joy in your everyday life; the words, stories, feelings that bring you joy. It's an opportunity to share what it sounds like, looks like, feels like for you.

The Child and Youth Services Poster Contest is open to all TDSB students, with prizes to be won in five categories. The winning designs will be announced on during Children's Mental Health week May 6th to 10th when we visit schools to share the news with students and their communities. We will also feature the posters on Social Media and throughout the TDSB in our buildings.

Please see the attached poster for contest details and submission information.

The deadline to submit contest entries is March 28, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

Please share at your schools!