About High School Too
A culture of consent and care
High School Too brings students and educators, parents and caregivers, advocates and experts together to create meaningful tools, resources and policy change to how Ontario schools respond to sexual and gender-based violence.
Everything we do is co-designed with the people most impacted: students.
Student knowledge and lived experiences are responded to, respected and resourced.
How we work…
Our guiding principles are rooted in a care-first model of support before reporting, for students impacted by sexual assault.
Everyone belongs
Care is a shared responsibility
You are the expert of your experience
We name the roots of harm
Co-design leads to meaningful tools and resources
Hurt people can hurt others, and have the right to heal
Consent is how we show care
Accountability, justice, and healing take many forms
Lead collaborators
Our two-year, province-wide initiative is led by the Ontario Student Trustees’ Association (OSTA-AECO), representing over two million students, and Possibility Seeds, a systems change consultancy focused on gender justice and equity. The government of Ontario funds it as part of Ontario-STANDS: Standing Together Against gender-based violence Now through Decisive actions, prevention, empowerment and Supports and the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.
Our roots
High School Too is part of a much larger movement to build consent culture that began long before us and will continue long after. We are here because of the courage and work of generations of survivors, youth leaders, and organizers who made this moment possible. We honour them by continuing to build safer, more caring communities.
