Our Mission:
Empower.
We give young people the research skills to create social impact community building projects about their communities.
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May 2019
I like this program because it gives you a lot of room to express yourself…I learned to talk to different people and hear different perspectives.
Jeanne / Grade 10
Our Programs
The Youth Research Lab is a Hub of youth-oriented research with a particular commitment to participatory methods and to working with youth who experience marginalization within schools. Established in 2017, the lab brings together several projects with a focus on school-based youth participatory action research and supporting the work of adult facilitators and allies.
Youth in Solidarity Across Boundaries (YSAB)
In collaboration with the Urban Indigenous Education Centre of the Toronto District School Board, this school-based yPAR project brings together Urban Indigenous and Latinx students to develop research project that seek to better understand and develop solutions to address the challenges young people encounter in schools. Following the model developed in collaboration between the TDSB and the YRL’s Proyecto Latinx, this collaborative project brings together youth from these two communities to engage in both research as well as cultural production projects that examine questions of difference, diaspora, indigeneity, and solidarity across the landmass of the Abya-Yala with a commitment to decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty. We envision this collaboration as an echo of the beginning of the era of the eagle and the condor, as prophesied by the Inca elders of Twantinsuyo.
in:cite
in:cite (incitejournal.org) is an online journal by, for, and created by young people. in:cite was originally founded by former members of yPAR projects who were eager to provide a space for youth to publish and disseminate their work.
DISSEMINATION PODCAST
The Youth Research Lab aims to build a community of youth allies and other researchers committed to facilitating this kind of work. We are beginning to do this work by develop a project around the ethics of dissemination.
Get Involved
bRING THE YOUTH RESEARCH LAB TO YOUR SCHOOL
YRL is always looking for new partners to expand programming. If you are interested in engaging your students in participatory research contact us below.
JOIN THE YOUTH RESEARCH LAB
Do you identify with the latinx and/or indigenous community? Are you interested in learning how to create social change through community building projects? Come Join Us!
SUBMIT TO IN:CITE
IN:CITE is looking for youth to submit art work, writing, academic work, etc for the only youth-led peer review journal. Get published and have your work seen and heard!