Beat the Streets Blog
Welcome to the Beat the Streets blog, a labour of love crafted by BTS staff, consultants, guest writers, and program participants. Based in Toronto, we focus on youth development programs, charity initiatives, and empowering active and healthy youth through sports and skill-building programs. Discover insightful articles on fitness, training, health, wellness, employment empowerment, program updates and the impactful stories that shape our journey.
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My Favourite Social Media Influencers
This post will talk about social media influencers that stand out in a positive way to me.
My Favourite Tournament
Learn about my favourite wrestling tournament based on my experience, what I learned and the wrestling itself.
You Grow Girl Programme: Yoga
Read all about one of the four main activities that will make up our You Grow Girl programme.
10 things to know before attending post-secondary. Part 1
tips for incoming Post-secondary students. Part 1
Student Inspirations: Jessica O. Matthews
To celebrate the launch of our new mentorship program, our BTS summer students are creating a blog series on people who motivate and inspire them. In this blog Simi tells us about Jessica O. Matthews, the Nigerian-American innovator and CEO.
Media Advisory
Beat the Streets Receives 2 Ontario Trillium Foundation grants to deliver programs encouraging active, confident and resilient youth.
YGG Promo Series: Women Who Inspire
Learn more about the Women Who Inspire video series where we are giving a platform to the women who inspire us! This comes ahead of our new You Grow Girl program beginning in Fall 2020.
5 Things I do to get ready in the morning for a big tournament
Read this blog post to learn about my morning routine the morning before a big tournament.
University Here I Come
Read about the reason I decided to go to university and how excited I am.
7 things that bother wrestling athletes in the practice room
a list of things that bother wrestling athletes in the practice room
2020 Summer Fun!!!!
Read my first 2020 blog to get to know me, who I’m working with and who is funding me and my wonderful team.
We Are The Saroya Twins!!
We’re so excited to be working with Beat The Streets this summer, read all about it!!!
Student employees will be taking over BTS social media this summer
Our social media is being taken over by our summer students! Get ready for fresh content!
I'm Back!
This introductory blog post is the start of my exciting summer working with Beat the Streets Toronto as the mental health research assistant. This summer I will be using my research skills to gather and provide helpful information regarding mental health and mental health in sport.
Hello World and Many Thanks Part II
This introductory blog post officially kicks off my summer experience working with Beat the Streets Toronto and coming to understand the process of researching and developing a mentorship program..
The ParticipACTION Report Card is out - for Adults!
On June 17th, ParticipACTION will release it’s 2020 Report Card on children. Until then, let’s see how the Adults were graded in their very own 2019 Report Card.