YOUTHREX

YouthREX is excited to host an online Teach-In with Vikki Reynolds, consultant, facilitator, and community worker!... REX Virtual Café is managed by Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX), a province-wide initiative based at the School of Social Work, York University. YouthREX's vision is an Ontario where shared knowledge is transformed into positive impact for all youth. The Virtual Café is informed by ideas from a Design Day that YouthREX organized in October 2016, where youth workers prototyped a website/app/online space for youth workers to connect around advocacy and policy change, expand their network, and find resources, tips, and tools. They suggested that such a prototype would reduce feelings of isolation and help with self-care... Vicarious trauma can focus on ways that young people's pain infects us with hopelessness, but the youth with whom we work often inform, transform, provoke, and educate us. The harms in our work most often stem from structures that are..