Federation of Canadian Secondary Students

1. Conferences workshops and seminars on mental health stress anxiety coping identity-based discrimination and other issues related to youth and mental health for secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada to advance education by supporting students and communities. 2. Leadership and mentorship services such as admissions applications seminars to secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada in order to help prepare them for the transition to post-secondary pathways including college university apprenticeship/trades and the workplace. 3. Internet-based youth engagement platform to support schools and education by fostering civic engagement among secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada in order to support and empower youth. 4. Furtherance of education though the creation and facilitation of equity and anti-discrimination trainings to secondary school students with particular emphasis on historically marginalized groups in Canada. 5. Furtherance of education by developing a financial literacy training program tailored for Canadian secondary student audiences. Focuses of the financial literacy training program focused on supplementing existing material in provincial curricula. 6. Furtherance of education through the creation of curriculum and learning materials addressing Indigenous Peoples and climate change beyond the scope addressed in provincial educational curricula. This included a targeted program of learning circles and delivery of educational content with a focus on environmental issues environmental racism disproportionate effects of climate change Indigenous reconciliation and decolonization. 7. Furtherance of education through a new mutual aid research program to allow Canadian secondary students the ability to complete their required community services hours for secondary school remotely under the constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. A specific focus of this program was ameliorative and targeted at students from rural remote and northern communities who may be at risk of not completing secondary school.