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reconciliation barometer 2024: 1 Year Update

Centre for Indigenous Policy and Research

December 2025

To read the full Barometer report, see the QR Code Below:

www.indigenousyouthroots.ca/programs/indigenous -youth-reconciliation-barometer-2024

About the Barometer 2024 The Indigenous Youth Reconciliation Barometer 2024 is a nation-wide, largescale research project that aims to better understand how Indigenous youth envision their futures, and what they need to support their empowerment.

Through six in-person sharing circles held across the country and an online survey, we engaged with 1,125 Indigenous youth from coast-to-coast-tocoast!

We were able to have in-depth conversations about everything from how cultural connection impacts wellness, what youth define as meaningful work, what barriers they see hindering reconciliation, and what they think real solidarity and reconciliation look like for their communities. Setting those stories and experiences against detailed demographic information means allows for new, data-driven findings and recommendations for systemic reform to support Indigenous youth in thriving in every area of life.

For a demographic breakdown of the 1,125 participants, check out the full report!

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About the Barometer 2024 After more than a year of planning, engagement, and report writing, we launched the Barometer 2024 report in Ottawa on October 30, 2024, alongside almost 100 collaborators, youth advocates, and partners.

Here, we celebrated the contributions of Indigenous youth and shared some key outcomes of the project, and held a panel discussion to talk about the importance of youth-led research.

The final report for the Barometer 2024 can be read here! Over the last year, we’ve also published the full report in French, and made the At A Glance section available in Inuktitut, Anishinaabemowin, Michif, and Mi’kmaw. You can also read just the individual themed sections of the report!

One year after the launch of the Barometer 2024, we’re highlighting where it has gone and what we’ve done with it since. As we’ve shifted to amplifying the outcomes of this research, we’re also highlighting some of the things to come!

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Online Engagement with the Barometer 2024 Since its launch, the full Barometer 2024 report along with the separate sections of the report, and the translated versions have been read, shared, and engaged with by thousands of people! As of October 2025, here is how folks have engaged with the Barometer 2024 in its different forms across our social media and website:

Impressions on a PDF include views and reads of that document!

Full Report - 4,297 impressions Full Report in French - 2,913 impressions Individual Sections - 1,305 impressions across all 5 sections

At A Glance in Indigenous Languages - 4,287 across all Indigenous language versions Our posts about the Barometer 2024 report, its launch, and the translated versions have received a total of 392 likes and shares!

The Barometer 2024 broken down by section: At A Glance Personal and Community Empowerment Culture, Language, and Wellness Education and Meaningful Work Reconciliation and Solidarity

Check out all the versions of the Barometer 2024: Full Report (English) Full Report (French) At A Glance (Anishinaabemowin) At A Glance (Inuktitut) At A Glance (Michif) At A Glance (Mi’kmaw)

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The Barometer 2024 in the Media Since its launch, the Barometer 2024 has caught the attention of the media and has been highlighted many times! You can check out some of the news articles and interviews about the Barometer 2024 here: Indigenous youth skeptical of government commitments to reconciliation,says survey (CBC, October 31, 2024) Reconciliation findings from one of the largest youth-led research initiatives in Canada (APTN, February 2024, 2025) Alberta Indigenous youth call for meaningful action on reconciliation in new report (CBC, November 5, 2024) Interview: Indigenous Youth Reconciliation Barometer (Global News, May 5, 2025) Also, in February 2025, an opinion piece by the Director of the Centre for Indigenous Policy and Research, Megan Lewis, and Associate Director, Kim Wakeford was published in Policy Options, focusing on the Barometer 2024 report’s outcomes, and about centering Indigenous youth voices in decision making. You can check the article out here!

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Panels & Presentations on The Barometer 2024 The Centre for Indigenous Policy and Research (CIPR) has been able to present about the Barometer 2024 and its findings for different government agencies and other organizations. We’re always happy to talk about the outcomes of the Barometer 2024 and about the inclusion of Indigenous youth voices in policy spaces and in decision making! Some of these presentations include: Indigenous Services Canada: Interdepartmental Collaborative Committee on Indigenous Data (December 2024) Assembly of First Nations forum on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDA) (February 2025) Young Delegates - Y7 Presentation (February 2025) UNDA Implementation Interdepartmental Workshop (February 2025) Mastercard Foundation Proposed Program Learning Series - Collaborating with Community for Impact (March 2025) First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework Secretariat Implementation Team (July 2025) Canada School of Public Service - Driving Change Though Indigenous Youth Leaders (August 2025) Indigenous Services Canada 2025-26 National Summit on Indigenous Mental Wellness’s webinar series (October 2025) Max Bell Foundation Panel on Youth Civic Engagement (November 2025)

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Panels & Presentations on The Barometer 2024 At IYR’s in-person Indigenous youth Gathering in Whitehorse, Yukon in July 2025, we also held a workshop on using the Barometer 2024 and research generally as a tool for advocacy, using the Advocacy Toolkit we created highlighting what we learned in the Barometer 2024 (more about this below!). In this workshop, Indigenous youth were able to start building an advocacy ask on topics they were passionate about using the toolkit! After the workshop, we asked participants in a survey about their plans to engage in advocacy work in the future. We heard that 88% of participants planned to engage with this work! We also heard that some of the participants who planned to engage in advocacy work in the future had never done so in the past, but planned to after the workshop!

In November 2025, we also presented in Aotearoa (New Zealand) at the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, amplifying the findings of the Barometer 2024 internationally! We shared about what we learned in the project, as well as the importance of Indigenous youth-led research, while making connections with other Indigenous organizations and leaders from around the world!

Research Manager Tija Hauta (left) and Director of the Centre for Indigenous Policy and Research Megan Lewis (right) in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) for WIPCE in November 2025.

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Indigenous Youth Reconciliation Barometer 2024: Advocacy Toolkit As highlighted above, using the data that participants entrusted us with through the Barometer 2024, we created the Indigenous Youth Reconciliation Barometer 2024: Advocacy Toolkit in July 2025 to support Indigenous youth in their advocacy work.

The toolkit breaks down jurisdictional responsibilities for different areas of law and policy, how to access the legislative process, how to build an advocacy ask, and how to use research as a tool for advocacy – all while using examples of data from the Barometer 2024 report.

We’d love for you to check it out and let us know if there is anything else that would be helpful to include in the toolkit!

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The Path Ahead Throughout 2025-2027, we are focusing on amplifying the insights of the project and spotlighting all the ways research like this can be used to build better policy, programs, and services for Indigenous youth.

Check out some of what’s on the horizon for this exciting project!

Amplifying the Barometer 2024 in Presentations and Conferences As we’ve just wrapped our presentation at the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, we’re looking to continue amplifying the Barometer 2024 domestically and abroad between now and Spring 2027! We have some neat things on the horizon for this – stay tuned for more!

Interactive Online Dashboard In the Barometer 2024, we were entrusted with expansive demographic information from the Indigenous youth who participated. While our preference was to dive deeper into how the project’s findings look through the lens of all of the intersecting demographics youth hold, this unfortunately wasn’t possible. To ensure the Barometer 2024 is used in ways that are most meaningful to Indigenous youth and their individual experiences, we’re begun development of an interactive online dashboard!

The online dashboard will allow Indigenous youth and those who support them to look deeper into the data and use it to support in things like program development and funding applications – but also to just be able to better understand what Indigenous youth are envisioning for themselves and their communities. Keep an eye on our social media for more updates on this!

Targeted Reports In this next phase of the project, we’re diving deeper into the data to create targeted, sector-specific reports. In these reports, we’ll look at what specific sectors are already doing to support Indigenous youth and their empowerment, and what they need to do more of. Keeping in line with IYR’s guiding principle of Accountability, our first sectorspecific report will be about non-profits! Watch out for this report, coming soon!

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reconciliation barometer 2024: 1 Year Update If you have any questions about the Barometer 2024, this report, have a suggestion for a sector-specific report, or would like to connect to chat about the project, please reach out to: Tija Hauta Research Manager tija@indigenousyouthroots.ca