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Seven-Part DEVlab Webinar Series: Creating dynamic, engaged, and vital young workforces in cities
Tamarack Institute x Youthful Cities
Dates: June 11 | June 19 | June 23 | July 8 | July 15 | August 6
What skills do young people need to thrive — in work, in learning, and in life?
This spring and summer, join Tamarack Institute and Youthful Cities for a compelling webinar series that brings together youth voices, expert perspectives, and community leaders to unpack the findings, challenge assumptions, and co-create solutions based on the findings of DEVlab, a national project funded in part by the Government of Canada’s National Essential Skills Initiative program.
Across seven sessions, folks will spotlight the trends, tensions, and transformations happening in cities across Canada — and how we can move forward together.
Whether you’re a youth-serving organization, policymaker, advocate, community builder, or a young changemaker yourself, these conversations are for you!
Miriam Makeba Environmental Youth Program (Kitchener-Waterloo)
Archive the Diaspora
Program Dates: Every Saturday, 21 June– 26 July 2025
Application Deadline: June 12, 2025
The Miriam Makeba Environmental Youth Program is a 6-week, in-person program rooted in environmental justice, Black and African liberation, and diasporic connection. It’s named in honour of South African singer, activist, and freedom fighter Mariam Makeba, whose legacy reminds us of the power of culture, community, and resistance.
Inspired by Miriam Makeba, the program amplifies the voices of Black and African diasporic youth in environmental justice, just as Makeba used her voice and music to tell the world about her people's struggle against apartheid. We use our stories to fight for our land, water, all our relations, and sovereignty.
This space is for Black youth of African descent living in Kitchener-Waterloo, including, but not limited to, Afro-Indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Palestinian, African international/migrant youth, and all African descendant youth who identify as part of the global African diaspora. We gather to envision new futures together through climate justice, art, storytelling, and community building.
SevenGen Indigenous Youth Council
SevenGen Energy
Application deadline: June 15, 2025
SevenGen Energy is looking for Indigenous youth who are ready to lead bold conversations and actions in clean energy. We are building a team of ambitious, creative young people to join the SevenGen Youth Council. We need young leaders who want to bring their skills to the table to support the SevenGen mission and help make our vision a reality.
As a Youth Council Member, you’ll:
🌟 Help shape SevenGen programs and events
🤝 Connect with Indigenous communities across Turtle Island
🌱 Contribute to the growing movement of Indigenous-led climate solutions
These are volunteer positions, with the possibility of receiving honorariums.
Youth 4 Resilient Communities
waterlution
Date: June 16, 2025
Calling Canadian change-makers aged 18-30 years! Are you ready to make a real impact in your community and tackle urgent climate and water challenges of today?
Youth 4 Resilient Communities (Y4RC) invites you to come together with youth from across the country to learn how to create impact in your community. National in design, Y4RC’s immersive experiences will build your skills, insights and networks across Canada’s climate and water challenges.
From September 2, 2025 – Feb 27, 2026, be one of 80 young Canadians to learn new skills and perspectives as you travel in September 2025 to Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and in January 2026 Loon Lake, British Columbia to be immersed in extensive training & local experiences. These 2 in person training sessions will be the foundation for the development of your own community projects.
ClimateWest Forum: Climate Resilient Futures
ClimateWest
Dates: June 17-18, 2025
Registration for the annual ClimateWest Forum is now open! Join in person or virtually on June 17-18, 2025 to explore this year's theme, Climate Resilient Futures: Empowering people through knowledge, tools, and stories. This free, hybrid event hosted in Saskatoon will delve into inspiring stories that motivate adaptation actions, as well as knowledge and tools that promote preparedness in our changing climate. Confirmed sessions include:
Impacts of Climate Change on People and the Land
Embracing Nature: Building Resilience Through Natural Infrastructure
Stories of Resilience: Northern, Indigenous, and Rural Adaptation Strategies
Managing Water in a Changing Climate
Resilient Local Food Systems
Interactive Tools for Adaptation
Space is limited for in-person attendees. Don't miss out!
We Organize with Busy Lives: A Political Panel for Young Adults
Basic Income Waterloo Region
Date: June 18, 2025
Do you feel helpless in the current political climate? Do you want to make a difference? Do you believe you are too busy to bother trying? Basic Income Waterloo Region’s (BIWR) Youth Engagement Committee and the Ontario Basic Income Network (OBIN) invite you to rethink how political action can fit into your active lifestyle.
Join folks on Wednesday, June 18 from 6:30 – 8 pm EDT with a panel of socially- and politically-engaged young adults (aged 18 – 40) as we discuss how we can build community while maintaining our careers, education, childcare, and more. This event was created by youth, for youth, so that we can collectively reject cynicism, embrace empowerment, and secure a more hopeful present and future.
Indigenous Youth Policy School
Indigenous Youth Roots
Application deadline: June 23, 2025
This 9-month, tuition free, program will begin in September 2025 and is seeking solutions-focused Indigenous youth (18-29) who are inspired to make changes in policy areas that matter to them!
Connect with policy as a tool for advocacy and feel empowered as a leader in your community!
Open to all Indigenous Youth from coast-to-coast-to-coast
Honoraria provided throughout
No experience needed, just an interest in policy, and a commitment to take part in this exciting program!
RISE Ambassador
Apathy is Boring
Application deadline: July 6, 2025
An initiative under Canada Service Corps, RISE helps young people co-create community projects and contribute to strengthening our civic and democratic fabric by engaging on topics that interest them.
RISE is developing projects in 8 cities across Canada: Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver.
It's a 15-week program where youth sit with an idea and bring it to life! RISE provides youth with the skills, tools, knowledge, and resources (a 4k budget) needed to positive change in their communities.
Adaptive and Resilient Communities Cohort
Tamarack Institute
Deadline: Rolling
The Adaptive and Resilient Communities Cohort (ARCC) is designed to catalyze community-level actions to advance local climate adaptation and resilience projects. The cohort will bring together 15 collaborative teams (i.e., collaborations between at least two partners) for a year-long journey of applied learning and action that includes communities of practice, tailored coaching, and access to the latest thinking, tools, and resources, all designed to help you overcome your barriers to action.
Through the ARCC journey, participating teams will dive deep into a local climate adaptation and resilience project to achieve at least one significant implementation milestone by the end of the 12 months. This progress will build a strong foundation and momentum for continued work beyond the cohort by exploring:
Implementation Barriers – how to understand, prioritize, and mitigate your local implementation challenges;
Community Assets – how to leverage what is strong and weave in local knowledges and leadership to overcome barriers to action;
Equitable Engagement – how to meaningfully engage those most impacted by climate change in implementing and evaluating this work;
Strong Partnerships – how to build, resource, and steward resilient, cross-sectoral collaborations throughout implementation;
Progress Evaluation – how to capture and learn from the process and outcome impacts that emerge during implementation.
Join the Youth Climate COllaborative member Database!
Youth Climate Collaborative
Deadline: Rolling
Youth Climate Collaborative creates pathways for youth, ages 13-35, to sustain their involvement in the climate movement, and accelerate their action.
Whether you’re an established leader in the movement or new to it and eager to get involved, we welcome you! Complete your profile today to be included in our Member Database - for free. The database will be shared with conference organizers, event planners, and others actively seeking passionate, knowledgeable youth speakers and leaders for various opportunities!
