Consent & Healthy Relations Workshop

• Ages: (12-18) Grades 7-12
• Time: 1 session at 75 minutes
• Number of Participants: up to 30 students
• Delivered online and in-person

Using fun games, discussion, and other tools youth learn how to identify and communicate sexual boundaries and learn why asking for consent and challenging gender stereotypes is key to creating positive and equal relationships. The workshops affirm the importance of self-determination – that every person has the right to define their sexuality and set their own limits and it is every person’s responsibility to respect the limits of others. The workshops are delivered during school hours and are generally booked in a required class for Grade 7- 12 students with differing content based on the grade. Each session should be between 60 and 80 minutes and can accommodate up to 30 students. Currently, Project Respect is focusing on delivering workshops for students in partner schools (SD 61 & 62). However, each school year we are also able to do a limited number of workshops with other schools and for community groups.

Bystander Intervention Workshop

• Ages: (12-18) / Grades: 7-12
• Time: 1 session at 120 minutes
• Number of Participants: up to 30 students
• Delivered online

The Bystander Intervention workshop is facilitated by Black Youth Empowerment, and it engages Black youth to define the role of a bystander in situations involving discrimination and bullying and explore ways to respond that are supportive to those impacted, and is grounded in stepping into one’s power. If you’d like to bring this workshop to your school or community you must have a group of black youth interested in receiving this workshop. To learn more follow us on Instagram @b.y.e.victoria or if you have any questions email us at .

Youth Leadership Training (not being offered in 2023 due to funding changes)

• Ages: 14-17 (Grades 9-12)
• Time: 10-12 sessions once per school year
• Number of Participants: up to 25 students

Over 10 to 12 sessions, a group of youth will be engaged in a participatory, arts-based process to move through an anti-oppressive, healthy relationships curriculum. Participants learn a wide variety of leadership skills in the design and delivery of their projects, including: project coordination, facilitation, curriculum design, digital media production, communication skills, team work, and more. Each cohort explores the issues that are most relevant to them, and collaboratively creates a social action project that is showcased for the wider school community. Students who participate in one year have the opportunity to help plan and facilitate the project the following year. Running once per school year, the leadership training typically takes place in class time (such as a Social Justice Studies or Mental Health class) or during an ‘exploratory’ block and can accommodate up to 25 students.

Safer Spaces Training

• Ages: Adults (Educators, School Administration, Youth Service Providers, etc.)
• Time: 1 session at 90-120 minutes
• Number of Participants: up to 25 adults
• Delivered online and in-person

Project Respect’s youth-adult team developed a workshop for educators, school administration and youth service providers! Using discussion, role plays and multimedia resources, our Safer Spaces workshop creates a comfortable space for adults who work with youth to develop the skills to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, and the language and knowledge to be active bystanders, using youth-centered, trauma-informed, and consent-based practices. Staff trainings take about 90 to 120 minutes, are offered at a time convenient for the school and can accommodate up to 25 participants. Information sessions provide staff with information about community resources (such as the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre’s Clinic), space to ask questions and an opportunity to collaboratively problem solve challenging scenarios.

Safer-Braver Spaces Workshop

• Ages: Adults (Educators, School Administration, Youth Service Providers, etc.)
• Time: 1 session at 120 minutes
• Number of Participants: 70-80
• Delivered online

Safer-Braver Spaces is culturally relevant training facilitated by Black Youth Empowerment, for adults who want to learn how to support youth who are impacted by racism and gender-based violence, and gain tools to promote a culture of consent in their work environment through practice of intervention and desire to shift practices and policies. BYE hosts up to two Safer-Braver Spaces workshops a year. To learn more about up coming workshops follow us on Instagram @b.y.e.victoria or email us directly at .

Black Youth Empowerment

The purpose of Black Youth Empowerment (BYE) is to bring together Black youth to actively take part in conversations and actions around anti-violence, anti-racism and consent work, while sharing their experiences of racialized violence. BYE is youth-led, and is supported by One Love Consulting and Girls & Femmes with Afro-textured Hair. BYE projects include curricula development, facilitation of Bystander Intervention and Safer-Braver Spaces, and will be looking to plan a conference in 2023. To learn more follow us on Instagram @b.y.e.victoria or email us directly at .

Youth Social Action Camp (not being offered in 2023 due to funding changes)

• Ages: 14-19 (Grades 9-12)
• Usually held in the spring
• Number of Participants: up to 25 youth

We invite youth from all identities, backgrounds, and experiences to explore how and why sexualized violence happens, and identify social justice issues that are relevant to them. Youth are supported in creating youth-led and centered social action projects to address the issues relevant to their experiences. A key theme at camp is exploring youth participatory action research, and creating research methods that center youth’s experiences and perspectives in creating and measuring social change. We explore these topics through theatre, art, media, and group discussions, nature walks, campfire circles, canoeing, games, and other activities.