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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How to increase your motivation-

Read this series to better yourself…

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Daily routines

Click here a learn about an effective daily routine.

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Advice for first year post secondary students PT2 (1FIRSTblog of blog series)

advice for first-year post-secondary students PT2

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5 Benefits of Playing Sports

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All Good Things Must Come To An End

and… that’s a wrap!

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Final thoughts on BTS Summer Jobs

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BTS Summer Job Highlights

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5 Benefits of Playing Sports

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Wrestle 4 Fun interview with former participant

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Spotlight on youth mental health organisations - Stella's Place

As part of our summer jobs experience, we were tasked with writing a series of blog posts spotlighting mental health organizations that are doing great work in the GTA to help youth facing mental health issues. This post I will be focusing on a youth mental health organization named Stella's Place.

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Beat The Streets Toronto congratulates Kelsey Mitchell - An Olympic champion who won a Gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics and started her cycling career only 4 years ago!

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What about SEL do participants learn at BTST?

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Beat The Streets Summer Camp Team

This is a little summary of the summer camp program that Beat The Streets is running.

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How public health emergency measures have affected the Mental health of children and adolescents & What Beat the Streets Toronto is doing to tackle this challenge?

Find out how public health measures are affecting the mental health of children and adolescents and why Beat the Streets Toronto is using social-emotional learning to tackle this challenge.

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First day at Beat the Streets!

Describing the first day of working with BTST & discussing what I expect to learn over the course of 7 weeks! Thank you Canada summer jobs!

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How Can You Implement Social-Emotional Learning in Your Life and Classroom?

With all the information we’ve talked about in regards to social-emotional learning .. how exactly can you implement it into your daily life? Click to read about the ways you can easily involve activities that will help you become a more resilient, confident, and active person.