SURVEYING YOUTH IN REGENT PARK
Youth Empowering Youth conducts a survey of Regent Park youth on the issues and barriers to youth programming. Regent Park is a diverse community in Toronto. Revitalization in Regent park is gradually transforming this community towards a brighter future and a better social cohesion, but the challenges continue to exist, particularly for the youth of this community. With one of the highest populations of young people in the city, almost everyone agrees that youth in Regent Park needs more supportive initiatives and services, so they can succeed in life. Initiated in 2019, Youth Empowering Youth (YEY), aims to empower and support youth residents, by reducing and eliminating barriers to programming for youth in the community and identifying supports that the youth of Regent Park needs, and can benefit from. The YEY program is a completely youth led program intended to mobilizes a collective effort by the youth, for the youth. In December 2020, a survey, funded by United W