About Us
High School Too: Building Our Futures With Consent.
High School Too is a two-year, province-wide initiative will address gender-based violence in Ontario high schools. High School Too is led by the Ontario Student Trustees’ Association (OSTA-AECO), Ontario’s largest official student stakeholder group, representing over 2 million students. It is funded by the Ontario Government the Federal Government’s National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence (NAP GBV).
This is your invitation to join us in dreaming, designing, and deep collaboration to reimagine what safety can look like for students.
The tools and resources are co-designed with the people most impacted: students. In addition, High School Too engages many voices, including school leaders, educators, parents, and experts, to co-create safer learning environments for all.
Our Commitments
These principles guide everything we do:
Care is shared: safety is everyone’s responsibility
Consent is culture: built through communication, respect, and boundaries
Context matters: gender-based violence is shaped by systems like racism, colonialism, and ableism. It doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Dreaming is where we start: dreaming is a deep part of our liberation from violence.
No one is disposable: hurt people, hurt others. The way forward is accountability, healing and care.
Healing is personal: there’s no one path forward.
Learning is ongoing: mistakes are part of the work, it's how we are accountable to them.
What High School Too is Not
High School Too is not a crisis or counselling service.
We offer tools and resources for education, peer care, and prevention. You will never be asked to share personal experiences. Participation is always voluntary. Your well-being comes first.
Visit our Support Resources page for immediate help or mental health services.
High School Too is led by OSTA AECO with support from Possibility Seeds.
The Ontario Student Trustees’ Association is Ontario's largest official student stakeholder group, advocating for over 2 million students.
For over twenty years, OSTA-AECO has been a strong, effective, and positive voice for students. Our organization strives to empower students and work to improve public education across the province.
In addition to our advocacy work, OSTA-AECO provides rich professional development for Ontario student trustees. OSTA-AECO hosts three annual conferences, as well as a variety of other events.
Possibility Seeds is an award-winning Canadian systems change consultancy dedicated to advancing gender justice, equity, and inclusion. With more than two decades of experience, they specialize in co-desiging transformative change with institutions and communities.
Possibility Seeds led Courage to Act, the most comprehensive national project to address and prevent gender-based violence at Canadian post-secondary institutions. Funded by the Government of Canada, Courage to Act engaged over 4,800 gender-based violence experts, educators, and student leaders, producing more than 70 publicly available tools to transform campus safety and culture. The project has been recognized across the country for its trauma-informed, survivor-centred approach and measurable impact.