2025 Acceleration Agenda
- Ryan Voisin
- Nov 19
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 20
Canada is at a decisive moment for children and youth. Despite Canada’s relative prosperity, outcomes for young people continue to lag behind those of peer nations due to fragmented systems, uneven access to supports, and a lack of coordinated national leadership. Yet across the country, there is strong consensus on the changes required to achieve measurable, equitable improvement.
Inspiring Healthy Futures’ updated Acceleration Agenda outlines six national priorities that can drive meaningful progress. These priorities focus on system alignment, community strength, implementation of evidence, data modernization, and sustained leadership. Together, they reflect a shared national purpose: to build coherent, rights-based, child-centred systems in which every young person in Canada can thrive.
We are calling on leaders across sectors to:
Align around the six national priorities and integrate them into strategic plans.
Contribute to and adopt a shared national set of child well-being indicators.
Participate in the national coalition to coordinate action across research, practice, policy, and community systems, including aligning research agendas with system-wide priorities.
Use a shared communications narrative rooted in rights, equity, community strength, and economic value.
Share innovations and build a learning ecosystem—not isolated pilots.
Canada has the knowledge, capacity, and collective will to create systems where every child and youth thrives. The Acceleration Agenda provides a clear, achievable path for the next 2–3 years. With coordinated leadership, long-term investment, and a commitment to equity and prevention, Canada can transform a fragmented landscape into a coherent system that reflects the rights, cultures, and aspirations of young people across the country.
The time to act—decisively and together—is now.
