Focus on Youth Toronto (FOYT) - Paid summer jobs for high school students (TDSB and TCDSB)

Paid summer jobs and leadership training for high school students, who work in free summer programs for children and youth held in schools in Toronto's inner-city neighbourhoods.

Program in Toronto. Jobs & careers Teens & youth Students

When: The 2026 program ran July 2 to August 7, 2026 (at least 6 weeks, minimum 35 hours a week). Dates for summer 2027 are not posted yet; in 2026, agencies applied for student staff from March 4 to March 26.

How to reach them

1. Go to their application form.
2. Say who you are and what you are offering or asking.
3. Come back here and tell us if they answered.

Other ways, if that one is quiet

• Contact pageGo to their contact page
  It workedNo answer

• Partnerships pageGo to their partnerships page
  It workedNo answer

Where else they are

Their website is tdsb.on.ca/focusonyouth.

Good to know

• For whomHigh school students in Toronto; the latest TCDSB call (summer 2025) was open to all youth enrolled in a TCDSB high school born in 2009 or earlier, offering 4 or 6 weeks of paid work and 2 high school credits; TDSB's student rules are not posted on its page.
• CostFree (paid job for students)
• LanguagesEnglish
• Their stepsFrom early spring, check tdsb.on.ca/focusonyouth (TDSB students) or focusonyouthtcdsb.com/apply (TCDSB students) for the new summer application. Fill in the online student application as soon as it opens; jobs start the first week of July. If hired, work the full summer term (6 weeks at 35 or more hours a week in 2026).

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