Integrated Youth Services Learning Innovation Network Canada
(IYS LINC)
Integrated Youth Services (IYS) is growing across Canada, with various initiatives driving the effort to share knowledge and expertise, and implement IYS practice throughout the country. Read below to learn about the work done by the IYS Learning Innovation Network Canada, who is involved, and the values that guide the work.
Integrated Youth Services Learning Innovation Network Canada (IYS LINC)
The Integrated Youth Services Learning and Innovation Network Canada (IYS LINC) team supports IYS networks and hubs across Canada.
Funded by Health Canada, IYS LINC provides practical guidance, and knowledge sharing that helps IYS teams:
operationalize the IYS Principles and strengthen service delivery at the community level
adapt the IYS model to local contexts
improve how services are organized and experienced by youth
learn from implementation efforts across jurisdictions
IYS LINC also leads pan-Canadian initiatives that build capacity across the IYS sector, including:
peer support workforce development
fundraising and financial sustainability supports
a pan-Canadian IYS Learning Centre.
Guided by the values of reciprocity, curiosity, integrity, and collective action, IYS LINC fosters collaboration, shared learning, and innovation through implementation support, capacity building, peer support leadership, and knowledge mobilization.
Goals
The IYS LINC and IYS CC teams aim to support the development, delivery, and evaluation of high-quality IYS programs across Canada by strengthening connections between youth, caregivers, provincial/territorial IYS networks, Indigenous-led IYS initiatives, and IYS researchers.
Through sharing of best practices, research, and innovative approaches across regions, the IYS LINC and IYS CC teams will focus on improving health equity by centring the needs of youth facing systemic barriers, including Indigenous, Black, newcomer, and 2SLGBTQ+ youth
