Join us for the 4th Annual Youth Achievement Awards Night on November 8, 2025, at Elmbank Community Centre, Etobicoke. This inspiring evening will celebrate youth champions with an award ceremony, gala dinner, dance and music performances, and engaging activities. Don’t miss this chance to honor and encourage the leaders of tomorrow!
Empower Youth Performing during our Art skill gallery show on August 16, 2025.
Empower Youth Reading contest was great and enjoyed by everyone. It happened on June 12th 2025.
This event will challenge your reading skills while championing your ambition to grow a lifelong reading habit. Expect lively discussions, thought-provoking prompts, and practical tips you can put into action right away. Get ready to stretch your mind, connect with fellow book lovers, and spark a curiosity that keeps turning pages long after the event ends!
Mental health awareness is often missing in the Black community — but together, we can find the missing link and help everything fall into place. Knowledge is power, and this workshop is designed to leave something meaningful in you!
Celebrating Black History Month 2025: A Powerful and Successful Youth-Led Event
This February, our youth organization proudly hosted a vibrant and meaningful Black History Month 2025 event — and it was a huge success!
With powerful performances, thought-provoking discussions, and an amazing turnout from our community, the event highlighted the strength, creativity, and resilience of Black voices — past and present.
Recognizing Black History Month is more than just remembering the past — it’s about educating, empowering, and building a more inclusive future.
Thank you to everyone who attended, participated, and supported. Together, we made a difference.
Let’s keep the conversation going — not just in February, but all year long.
Events
2024 Award Dinner Event.
Youth Achievement Award Dinner 2024
Parent Youth Advocacy Skill
Welcome to the "Parents and Youths Advocacy Skill" seminar, a powerful platform designed to equip both parents and young people with the tools to effectively advocate for positive change in their communities. This event will bring together experts, educators, and passionate individuals to discuss key strategies in developing advocacy skills that empower youth, foster parent-child collaboration, and drive social transformation
Events
Spring Cleaning Event 2024
The weather is getting warmer and the community is going outside more which means it’s time for us to get on with our Spring Cleaning! Join us as steward our community together!
Events
Award Dinner 2024
They say a picture is worth more than a thousand words, but I would argue that one video is worth more than two thousand words. These videos are a testament to the success of our 2023 awards dinner.
Spring Cleaning Event
The weather is getting warmer and the community is going outside more which means it's time for us to get on with our Spring Cleaning! Join us as steward our community together!
Annual Reading Contest
This year the Reading Contest is back for the youths in our community. The youths get the opportunity to expand more on their understanding of their reading abilities and get more tips on how to improve. Prizes available!!!
EMPOWER YOUTH BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT 2024!!
This event is where participants were challenged to be innovative and productive in the era of social media, and to recognize Canadian Black History!
EYLTDS has come out with their first ever edition of their annual magazine. Featuring several things from local businesses to the achievements of our youth, the EYLTDS magazine was a great way to end off 2023.
Success
EYLTDS has come out with their first ever edition of their annual magazine. Featuring several things from local businesses to the achievements of our youth, the EYLTDS magazine was a great way to end off 2023.
EYLTDS INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP ON:
Financial Management and Bully Resistance Empowerment.
This event was aimed at ensuring our youths were equipped with the skills to be financially literate, and to overcome bullying in their communities.
EYLTDS ANNIVERSERAY BBQ - Where we celebrated the start of EYLTDS in ONE year!
Highlights from the Reading Club!
EMPOWER YOUTH has launched The Reading Club!
COMMUNITY SPRING CLEAN UP WITH EYLTDS!
This event was organized to get the youth involved in cleaning up their community.
Youth Challenges and Chances Forum
This fantastic is being hosted to understand the problems in our communities regarding our youth. We want to understand our youth, understand our roles, and propose solutions for their greater success.
Award Recipients
Favour Ezenwa, Success Obi Hezekiah, Daniela Francis, Sahy Marquaye, Ella Francis, Ibuola Ayemlowo, Makeda Maquaye, Stephanie Eneumo.
EYLTDS' Award Dinner 2022
The purpose of this spectacular event is to celebrate the success of the youth, and to motivate responsibility and resilience among them. EYLTDS' has the mandate to facilitate our youth's academic journey, and we want to support them in their challenges, as well as reward their excellence.
Below are our renowned speakers taking on the topics of youth academic success at our event, take a look at their profiles!
This is not an event you would like to miss!
Workshop on Techniques of Goal Setting
Titi Ohiku; BSW, RSW, Rece child, youth, and family therapist; Program Manager
Our amazing guest speaker will be speaking on the topic of "Purpose & Overcoming Peer Pressure."
Napoleon Ogbole is an Information Technology Business Architect
Napoleon is a successful Entrepreneur and he helps to design and manage software development projects for banks and governments. He will be speaking on the topic of "Staying Focused for Outstanding Success."
Marie Arrey-Mbi Educator at TVDSB
Our wonderful guest speaker will talk on the topic of "Seeking for Help when you Need it and Why it is Necessary."
EYLTDS' Youth Check Up Meeting
In this meeting, EYLTDS gathered the youths in the community to check in with how their summer is progressing. They discussed the importance of having an enjoyable summer, balanced with proper nutrition and exercise, as well as discussing ways on how they'd like to improve the rest of their summer. As a fun additive measure, they also all had an interesting time cracking some jokes! It was an amazing meeting to get the youths to mingle and make new friends, as well as allowing them to learn from others!
EYLTD’S Inauguration
Empower Youth Live the Dream Services will be hosting their Inauguration event to start the organization’s operations. During this event, there will be presentations, debates, speeches and more! All to highlight the great work of youth and the more to come. Below are the pictures from the event!
EYLTDS’ First Meeting – Online Forum
Empower Youth Live the Dream Services held a zoom meeting to amplify the voice of the youth in the community by discussing the important topic of dreams and goals.
Eliminate Youth Academic Stressors Workshop:
Featuring:
- Identify elements of stressors through dialog with experts (Some youth are at lost on what is their stressors)
- Develop strategy to overcome challenges through skill initiatives (Youth that lack the skills on how to confront their challenges)
- Achieve successes through implementation of initiatives with follow-up by mentors (Regular follow-ups that lead to great motivation to stay on track)
Empower Parents to Empower Children Overcome School Overwhelms Forum:
Focusing:
- New immigrant parents meet and greet interactive forum with peers already in the community (Familiarize parents with the school system through listening and answering question sections)
- Showing parents the available resources and their roles in children’s education (It can be overwhelming to know what is available in the community especially where there is language or cultural barriers)
- Pairing parents with comfortable peers to relate with, for an ongoing supports and adjustments to the new environment (Some parents maybe interested to work with people of the same religion or language in the community)
What does Youth Success look like in the Real World Symposium?
Areas of concentrations:
- Highlighting different kinds of success from various points of view (Example: Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Professionalism etc.)
- Encouragement and Motivation for youth to follow goals and dreams by Experts (Self-esteem and Self-Determination will be emphasized)