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    Discovering Direction: YES’ First Hybrid Roundtable Event!

    Discovering Direction: YES’ First Hybrid Roundtable Event!

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    Click here to watch full video: Citi The Journey Ahead – Event Recap.mp4

     

    YES was thrilled to host our first hybrid roundtable event at the Centre for Social Innovation this past September! This event, part of the Citi Foundation funded YES 2 Tech initiative, brought together our program participants along with program partners SAS, Amazon Web Services and IBM, to discuss technology, changing demographics and globalization altering the types of jobs available and the skills required for them.

    We heard an inspiring keynote address from Josef Azam, CEO and Co-Founder of Design Shopp International, and engaged our attendees in a lively panel discussion. In addition, we were honoured to present 3 participants of the YES 2 Tech program with participant awards acknowledging the outstanding perseverance they have shown in the face of life’s challenges while attending the program. Thank you to everyone who took the time to attend in person and virtually – we look forward to hosting further roundtable events in the future!

    ‘TRUTH TO YOUTH PROGRAM’ TO HELP CANADIANS NAVIGATE SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE AGE OF MISINFORMATION

    ‘TRUTH TO YOUTH PROGRAM’ TO HELP CANADIANS NAVIGATE SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE AGE OF MISINFORMATION

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    Press Release:  YES Truth to Youth video released:  Click here for video

     

    ‘TRUTH to youth program’ to help Canadians NAVIGATE social media in the age of misinformation

    YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES – YES Offering Free Program to help stop divineness and build trust amongst youth during this new age of mass misinformation via social media

     

    (TORONTO – NOVEMBER 22, 2022) – YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES (YES), Canada’s leading youth employment services provider, helping hundreds of thousands of youth find employment for free, has launched its ‘Truth to Youth Program’ to help reduce the increasing spread of fake news and false information over social media.  Misleading news and the twisting of data has led to greater mistrust and divisiveness.  The innovative YES program will help youth navigate information more effectively and find the real facts and science, which will lead to a more civil discussion of important issues.

     

    YES President & CEO stated “social media was supposed to help give all people, no matter what their socio-economic situation, access to information and help educate and inform.  We hoped it would bring different peoples and cultures together. Instead, social media has been used more to spread false stories and twist facts and science to try to generate more readers and make money by using sensational and fake news.  This has led to a more divisive society and even violence.  The ‘Truth to Youth Program’ will help youth spot fake news and use social media to search for the truth.  This will create a more civil debate and stronger communities.”

     

    The Truth to Youth Program is a video-based program with leading experts in media, law and politics including former Liberal and Conservative Cabinet Ministers, Navdeep Baines and Lisa Raitt, award winning authors and media personalities Amanda Lang and Andrew Cohen, and University of Toronto Law professor, Abdi Aidid.  These experts discuss the various pitfalls of believing false information and spreading fake news, along with ways to use social media for good and have a more civil discussion and debate, even with people you disagree with.

     

    Attached is the free link to the Truth to Youth video: Click here for video

     

    The Truth to Youth Program is a free video-based program available to all on yes.on.ca and via YES Programming and facilitators.  Since 1968 YES has supported and trained youth to help prepare for the future and create a stronger Canada.  The Truth to Youth program will further help in this endeavour.

    Prince Charles meets YES BizStart youth

    Prince Charles meets YES BizStart youth

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    YES partnered with the Princes Trust and have collaborated on many events and programming. 

    Recently two YES youth were selected to be part of the Royal visit.

    IT World Magazine Interviews YES CEO on Cyber Security Program, Ukraine Refugees

    IT World Magazine Interviews YES CEO on Cyber Security Program, Ukraine Refugees

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    Post-secondary Canadian institutions are increasingly offering cybersecurity courses to help fill the demand.  The latest is a not-for profit agency called Youth Employment Services (YES) that trains disadvantaged and vulnerable youth aged 15 to 29. Next month it starts a cybersecurity course with paid training in conjunction with IBM and funded by the Government of Ontario, Skills Development Fund.  “We’re excited to train more at-risk youth in an area of great need and help close the [cybersecurity] skills gap,” Lang said in an interview.  Surveys show there’s a shortage of cybersecurity workers in Canada.  He agreed with a suggestion that most employers want experienced IT workers. But, he added, YES has partnerships with a number of companies for job placement. The charity has been able to convince them to look beyond their desire for experienced people in many fields, he said, particularly of the value of hiring at-risk and racialized youth.

    Cybersecurity course for disadvantaged youth now offered by Canadian agency

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