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Serve! offers a variety of services and resources to the general public. These include materials produced by the youth participants of Serve!’s programs, such as our book She Speaks, zines, and T-shirts. Some products can be downloaded. In addition, Serve! has developed several educational workshops that can be available for agencies working with youth (depending on our staff capacity/resources at certain times of the year). Please contact Serve! directly to arrange a workshop.

Educational Workshops For Agencies Working with Youth

Serve! is offering various interactive workshops for groups of youth in the community:

A Boost for Youth: Building Competence & Capacity on the Frontlines (Note that this workshop is for youth workers usually 16 to 29 years old and focuses on anti-oppression/cultural competence; conflict management; or group dynamics/team building in order to build skills and awareness for working with youth.)
Diversity, Anti-Oppression & Cultural Competence
Goal Setting & Personal Effectiveness
Healthy Relationships & Boundaries
Passport to Participation (about service, volunteerism & community engagement)
Teamwork & Team Building
Understanding & Managing Anger

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Workshops can vary in length (dependent on request, type of workshop, and learning objectives) and are generally geared to youth 13 to 24 years old. The number of participants usually range from 8 to 24. Availability of the workshops can vary throughout the year. Evening or weekend sessions may be available on request.

The fee for workshops is: $50 (for duration of less than 2 hours); $100 (for half-day workshop of 2 to 3 hours); $200 (for full-day workshop of approximately 6 hours). Prorated fees may be available on request.

For more information or to book a workshop, contact:

Elaine Munro
(416) 933-2950
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Serve! T-Shirts

Wear the Serve! experience with our T-shirt! These shirts are all cotton baseball shirts with black 3/4 sleeves.

Please contact the office to check if we have a supply or selection of sizes.

$20.00 (includes shipping and tax)

Serve! Gives a Boost For Youth

Recognizing a need among young youth workers in the city, Serve! has taken on an initiative which would be different from yet will build on other Serve! programs. Through the Boost for Youth initiative, youth workers (or prospective) youth workers ages 16-29 participate in interactive training workshops. The workshops focus on anti-oppression/cultural competence, understanding and managing conflict as well as team/group dynamics. The aim of the training is to build understanding and skills that support equity, diversity and positive relationships.

Through self exploration and experiential learning, participants are building awareness, skills and confidence in addressing oppression in their work with youth and creating more safe and equitable environments for their clients.

The workshops are offered for a fee to youth agencies/organizations throughout the city and can be offered as a series or a stand-alone session. If your group or agency is interested in taking part in the Boost for Youth training please contact Elaine Munro, Program Manager, at (416) 933-2950 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

We have some limited capacity at times to provide this training so please do contact the office to explore our availability.

Passport To Participation

Interested in the Serve! experience and want to bring it to youth for a day?

Passport to Participation is an interactive workshop and presentation provided by Serve! for youth in the community. Workships include facilitated activities and discussions that help youth participants learn-and experience-more about community involvement, volunteerism, service and leadership.

She Speaks: A Community Approach to Violence Prevention and Healthy Relationships

Developed and produced by members of the Stronger Selves, Stronger Lives special project team (as part of the Experience This! program) in 2005, She Speaks is a resource guide for youth on preventing violence against girls and women, discrimination, harassment, relationships and safety. This 70 page book includes information, personal stories, perspectives and tips about understanding violence, how to create healthy relationships and what can you do about being more proactive in your community.

She Speaks: A Community Approach to Violence Prevention and Healthy Relationships is available for download as a pdf. Up until about 2008 or so the book was available and distributed free of charge to community agencies, classrooms and organizations that work with youth (but we have run out of physical copies).

Read a review.

Download the book (Adobe PDF)

You cannot currently purchase this book. But hey, if you'd like to provide a grant for reprinting a bulk supply of the book, please contact the Serve office!

She Speaks – A Review

By: Angela Kinnear – Research Associate, City Manager's Office

She Speaks: A Community Approach to Violence Prevention and Healthy Relationships is an important community resource developed by Serve!’s Stronger Selves, Stronger Lives Team.

The project received funding from the City of Toronto Access and Equity Grant Program (2004 Phase Two). The idea behind the project was to provide opportunities through intensive leadership development for young "at risk" women of diverse backgrounds. The program was developed to build capacity and increase skills in areas such as problem-solving, communication, assertiveness and critical thinking, and to produce a resource guide about women's issues and healthy relationships as a tool to create awareness on issues of human rights and discrimination.