To support the health of our community during COVID-19, we’ve moved online as well.
All workplace programs are also available in a digital, synchronous format.

Adult Programs

For adult learners, we offer two innovative, customized programs that prevent homophobia, transphobia, and sexual violence in youth-serving spaces and workplace environments.

YES!
Youth Equity Support

For Teachers, Community Support Workers, Camp Directors, and Parents

YES workshops support youth service providers - like teachers, community support workers, camp directors, and even parents - to develop foundational skills for creating inclusive youth spaces.

Reframe
DEI Training

For Corporate and Nonprofit Workplaces

Our project Reframe offers Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training where every partnership helps to fund CANVAS’ mission.

Step 3 - Facilitation

Using our unique empathy-based model, participants are engaged through an interactive style involving group discussion, personal reflection, and educational activities. Our expert facilitators guide the conversation, bringing insight from their lived and professional experience.

Step 4 - Evaluation

All programs conclude with a follow up activity, either in the form of a post-survey or ongoing check-ins. Findings are shared in a comprehensive report, detailing data from the surveys, outcomes from the workshops, and/or suggested next steps.

YES! Topics

YES! 2SLGBTQ+ Inclusion

Creating Affirming Spaces for Youth

Our 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion workshops take participants through a series of activities and structured conversations, offering strategies to create safer, celebratory spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth. Learn key terms, explore allyship concepts, and reflect on stories of those with lived experience. Ultimately leave with a sense of confidence that you have all the tools necessary to successfully support youth of all genders and sexualities.

YES! Consent Cultures

Promoting Consent and Supporting Survivors

In order to challenge rape culture in our communities, it is essential that youth-serving adults learn how to foster, promote, and maintain a culture of consent in their youth spaces. Participants in this workshop will learn best practices to construct environments free of harassment, sexual pressures, and shame, all while gaining skills to tangibly support youth survivors of sexual violence.

 YES! Gender Diversity

Exploring Gender — Expression, Oppression, and Celebration

Youth are exploring and creating their own unique identities every single day, whether we see it or not. In order to freely express yourself as a young person, it is necessary to be in spaces that actively work to dismantle rigid gender expectations. In this workshop, participants will learn the breadth of gender identity experiences, reflect on the ways gender expectations oppress young people in our society, and gain skills to support trans and gender non-conforming youth.

YES! Create

Building Supportive, Arts-inspired Environments

In fall of 2021, we are excited to be launching a brand new YES! project supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Created through a series of co-design sessions with youth involved in our community spoken word program, Back Talk: Voices Against Violence, our Yes! Create workshops will impart key aspects necessary to creating inspiring arts programs for marginalized youth. Designed with women and girls, non-binary people, survivors of sexual violence, and street-involved/homeless youth in mind, this workshop will help creatively transform the way you approach community programming.

YES! Consulting

YES Consulting equips youth-serving staff or senior leaders with foundational knowledge on queer and trans inclusion and sexual violence prevention, as well as concrete strategies to improve culture, policies, and infrastructure. We work directly with participants to address specific questions and create plans to meet your goals.

YES! Panels

A panel is a great way to hear diverse viewpoints on a given topic. Based on a pre-survey completed by your team, we customize panels to focus on key themes emerging from staff queries. All panels include multiple lived experience perspectives followed by an informal Q&A with questions submitted in real time at the session. Panels are a fantastic engagement learning option to celebrate a special time like Pride, International Women’s Day, or Trans Day of Visibility. Panels also work well for large teams or to pre-record as an asynchronous training.