Yonge Street Mission
Project Summary
Our project was to create an online platform that bridged the gap between frontline workers and the newest research relating to poverty-related trauma. Initially, we had decided that our solution would involve us conducting research and drawing our own conclusions regarding poverty-related trauma, then providing our reports and findings to YSM. However, after careful consideration, we decided that this solution was not consistent with our goals. We realized that our solution was to act as the middlemen/women, creating ground that connects these busy frontline workers to the resources that they need in order to update their current systems in treating and understanding poverty-related trauma. Thus, our website now allows us to provide relevant, readily accessible, easily digestible research that would otherwise be difficult, costly, and time-consuming to uncover.
Our collection of research is sourced from online scholarly journals, as well as interviews with various experts and scholars within the field. By providing front-line staff with our services, we are hoping that they will be able to improve their current methods and address any outdated or ineffective methods of treating trauma. This website has the potential to be extremely impactful as front-liners have long faced a gap between themselves and easily digestible information. Scholarly research is too often out of reach for the general public, and we believe that education should be accessible and digestible for all. We hope that our impact makes this objective more of a reality for the frontline staff at YSM as well as other NGOs.
Student Faculties
Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change
Sustainable Development Goals
