AIRE Learning Community Days
2 & 3 june 2026
On June 2 and 3, the AIRE Learning Community comes together for two days of dialogue, reflection, and collective learning. Youth, practitioners, managers, researchers, and partners from across Quebec will gather to share their experiences and advance practices that support young people. At the heart of the event, more than 30 youth are actively contributing to discussions, panel sessions, and collaborative workshops through an approach that brings together experiential, clinical, and scientific knowledge. Selected activities are also available online to encourage broad participation and accessibility.
Event highlights
Event program
Voices from the AIRE Project community
Youth in the spotlight!
Historical
panel
Learning Healthcare System
The AIRE approach
Promising Practices
Roots of hope
Event highlights
The AIRE Learning Community Days brought together more than 175 participants from across Quebec, including youth, family members and loved ones, Aire ouverte team members, community and institutional partners, managers, and representatives from Santé Québec and the Québec Ministry of Health and Social Services.
Over the course of two days, participants shared their experiences, knowledge, and reflections on the realities faced by young people, the evolution of Aire ouverte services, and future directions for youth-centered care and support.
Through panel discussions, collaborative workshops, and networking opportunities, the event strengthened connections within the Aire ouverte community, highlighted the valuable expertise of young people, and fostered collective learning in support of the continuous improvement of services for youth across Quebec.
Event program
Voices from the AIRE Project community
Youth in the Spotlight!
Youth realities and innovations
The first panel of the day highlighted the importance of meaningful and authentic youth participation in research, service development, and the continuous improvement of programs that directly affect them.
Through the sharing of their experiences, initiatives, and reflections, young participants emphasized that they hold essential expertise for understanding the realities faced by their peers and for contributing to solutions that are better aligned with their needs.
The discussions underscored the importance of creating spaces where young people are recognized as true partners, actively involved in the decisions and actions that shape the services and systems that concern them.
Youth innovations Aire ouverte
Youth realities
Stagi'AIRE program
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What If We Really Listened to Young People ?
What if young people had more of a say in the decisions that affect them?
In this video, Léa, a member of the AIRE project Youth Advisory Committee, directly addresses teams, managers, and decision-makers on the importance of moving from listening to action. With authenticity and conviction, she reminds us that young people are best placed to speak about their realities, their needs, and what truly makes a difference in their lives. Her message is clear: to design services that truly reach young people, they must be built with them, not only for them.
More than a testimonial, this contribution is a call to recognize young people as genuine partners of change and to make room for them in the spaces where decisions are made and where their futures are shaped
Historical panel
This panel offered an opportunity to revisit the key milestones that have shaped the development of Aire ouverte services in Quebec. Through the testimonies and reflections of individuals who have contributed to their implementation and evolution, participants were able to appreciate the progress made, the challenges addressed, and the lessons learned over the years.
The discussions also opened the door to conversations about the future of Aire ouverte, highlighting the importance of continuing to foster innovation, collaboration, and youth participation in order to respond to the evolving needs of new generations.
What Is a Learning Health System?
A Learning Health System is a system that continuously improves by drawing on the experiences, data, and knowledge of service users, family members, caregivers, and practitioners to deliver better care and services.
In a Learning Health System, every experience and every form of expertise contributes to the generation of knowledge. This knowledge, in turn, informs action, helping to adapt care and services in real time to better meet people's needs.
The AIRE approach
Promising Practices
Roots of hope
Roots of Hope is a project created by Alivia Tran and Léa Thibault as part of the AIRE research project. It is built around a simple yet essential question: What gives you hope ?
In public spaces, they met with community members to collect spontaneous, personal, and heartfelt reflections on hope in everyday life. Each video highlights a unique voice, story, or perspective.
Through this artistic and participatory initiative, the project aims to foster dialogue, connection, and collective reflection. The videos were also incorporated into an interactive installation using QR codes, allowing visitors to discover these stories as the leaves of a collective Tree of Hope.
Developed within the AIRE research project, this work explores the potential of art, human connection, and citizen voices as powerful tools for knowledge mobilization, engagement, and meaning-making.
