PLT Canada Annual Reports
Project Learning Tree Canada (PLT Canada) is committed to advancing environmental education, forest literacy, and career pathways, using trees and forests as windows on the world. Our award-winning resources offer a lifetime of learning from early childhood through adulthood. Our wide and diverse network provides professional development for educators and opportunities for young people to explore nature and the diversity of green careers in the forest and conservation sector. Together, we are growing future forest and conservation leaders. Thank you to the Government of Canada’s Youth Employment Skills Strategy for financial support that meaningfully impacts young Canadians and young adults facing barriers.
2023 Annual Report
We are tremendously proud to have supported 7,600+ Green Jobs since 2018, providing 50% of placements to women and 15% of our placements to Indigenous youth. Since 2018, PLT Canada has placed 1,900 young adults facing one or more barriers to employment, such as youth self-identifying as involuntary NEET (not in employment, education, or training), youth living with a disability, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, into Green Jobs. We have also delivered 11 mentorship cohorts with 600+ participants and developed many environmental education products in 2023, like the Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide and Forest Quest.
2022 Annual Report
We are proud to have supported 1,400+ Green Jobs in 2022, and 7,300+ Green Jobs since 2018, providing 50% of placements to women. We also supported over 200 mentors and mentees in 2022, delivering 9 cohorts to 500 participants since 2020, including a global cohort of 100 mentors and mentees from 37 different countries in our PLT Canada/World Forestry Congress Green Mentor cohort. And we’re excited to have launched our first resource in a theme-based series for educators: Trillions of Trees.
2021 Annual Report
We are extremely proud to have placed young adults (aged 15-30) in over 6,000 Green Jobs across the country since 2018, while continuing to achieve gender balance throughout. Quite notably, roughly 10% of our total job placements have gone to young adults facing two or more barriers to employment, and 15% of our placements have gone to over 900 Indigenous young adults from more than 100 Indigenous communities. We have also delivered seven mentorship cohorts to over 500 participants and increased our number of educational offerings to help educators better engage with young adults of all ages.
2020 Annual Report
Thanks to our partners in the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and Canadian Parks Council (CPC) networks, we have now placed youth (aged 15-30) in over 3,500 Green Jobs across the country since 2018, while continuing to achieve gender balance across all our job placements. We have also supported over 500 Indigenous youth from over 80 Indigenous communities and delivered our first of many mentorship cohorts to come, with over 200 mentees and mentors supported in diverse national and Indigenous cohorts between 2020-2021.
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2019 Annual Report
Among our many accomplishments, we have placed over 2,000 youth into Green Jobs since 2018, thanks in part to funding by the Government of Canada and employers across the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and Canadian Parks Council (CPC) networks. We have also achieved great diversity in our Green Jobs placements, including year-over-year gender balance, jobs for Indigenous youth and jobs for rural youth. We also continued to inspire youth across the country. Our Green Ride for Green Jobs campaign involved a cross-Canada journey on a wooden bike where we met 230 Green Jobs youth and over 50 employers.
PLT Canada, an initiative of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative®, is a non-profit charitable organization.
