About this Event
Join us for an empowering Vision Board Workshop designed specifically for Black Women (14+) who are ready to dream boldly and move with purpose. This interactive session creates a safe, affirming space to reflect, set intentions, and map out personal, academic, and career goals.
Through guided activities, creative expression, and meaningful conversation, participants will explore who they are, where they’re going, and how to get there. Our Peers, Sara, Stephanie and Shequera will support youth in connecting their passions, values, and lived experiences to real-life action steps—because our futures deserve clarity and confidence.
Whether you’re planning your next move, rediscovering your direction, or simply need space to dream out loud, this workshop is for you. Come as you are and leave motivated, focused, and ready to build the future you envision.
This event is a collaboration between Platfrom and the Black Women’s Mentorship Project at WHIWH CHC.The netWORKING: Young Black Women’s Mentorship Project from Womens Health in Womens Hands Community Health Center is dedicated to supporting African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women aged 16-25 living in the Greater Toronto Area. This program offers one-on-one, career-focused mentorship, aimed at advancing personal, academic, and professional achievements while fostering safer community spaces for Black women. Key objectives include enhancing educational attainment, employability, and overall well-being through embedded communal support. Mentees engage in monthly virtual meetings with their mentors, who guide them in skill development and career planning, reinforcing self-esteem and decision-making abilities. The program also provides workshops on topics such as Afrocentric identity, self-care, mental health, and financial literacy, promoting holistic participant support. This woman-centered and culturally relevant initiative ensures that young Black women connect with mentors who understand their unique challenges, helping them build resilience and achieve their long-term goals in a supportive, empowering environment.
Beyond the pipeline: Black youth legal education project from Platform(Young Womens Leadership Network)
This Black youth-led project seeks to empower young Black Girls, aged 14-22, who are negatively impacted by justice and educational systems. These youth are criminalized in the education system due to policing presence in schools, increased punishment through detentions, suspensions and expulsions, resulting in a school to Pr*son pipeline. This project will equip young Black Girls* with language to better understand their experiences and provide tools to support them with advocacy while they experience compounding oppressions of both anti-Black racism and gender based violence.
The project will create space for collective healing, without the threat of re-traumatization, ensuring that Black Girls* impacted by criminalization within the education system have the tools to build allyship, solidarity and personal advocacy. Platform will do this through education, awareness and anti-oppressive leadership workshops. They are creating meaningful opportunities for their community to come together and develop a deeper understanding of their personal experiences and facilitate power to young Black Girls whose experiences of criminalization within the education system are often overlooked. This program will be developed and facilitated by Black women whose values and lived experiences reflect the lived realities of the participants.
This program is funded with the support of the Law Foundation of Ontario and Laidlaw Foundation.
Agenda
What to Expect
Info: Goal-setting rooted in self-worth and community
Creative vision board building (no artistic experience needed)
Conversations around purpose, growth, and resilience
Mentorship, encouragement, and collective energy
Take-home vision boards to stay inspired year-round
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2 Carlton St. suite 500, 2 Carlton Street, Toronto, Canada
CAD 0.00
