OCYA Calling for Change Report 2025: Consultation Opportunities for Young People and Practitioners

The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate’s 2024-2025 Calling for Change – Consolidated Investigative Review is underway. The focus of this year’s report is how systems recognize, support, and intervene when young people experience trauma, grief and loss and the consequences of unresolved trauma, grief, and loss, and pain-based behaviours that can happen as a result.

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The team will be hosting consultations with both young people and practitioners to inform the report. 

The discussions with young people about their lived experiences with the Child Intervention and Youth Justice systems will assist in understanding how young people’s needs for addressing trauma, grief, and loss are met or unmet by the systems that served them and what services or supports they would have wanted or needed.  

The team will contact agencies working with young people who have systems involvement in communities across the province to share the opportunity for young people to provide input into the report.   Young people interested in participating are welcome to connect through the options listed on the attached youth flyer.

The virtual town hall meetings provides an opportunity to gather perspectives from service delivery across child serving systems about how trauma, grief, and loss are identified, addressed, barriers to addressing these concerns, and how service delivery could be supported to meet the needs of young people.

The information shared will be consolidated, analyzed, and themed in a non-identifying, non-fault-finding manner to inform areas of the report and highlight promising practices.

Virtual Town Hall Meetings

April 28, 2025 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM

April 29, 2025 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM (For those providing Indigenous Specific Services and Supports both on and off Nations

Register by April 22nd – See document below for details

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March 27, 2025