Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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The chicken dance. A move-to-the-beat challenge. And plenty of two-stepping.

Master’s student and Youth Wellness Lab researcher Jake Bradshaw has been using innovative, research-backed dance workshops to reach youth experiencing homelessness in Toronto. Now, Bradshaw is teaching fellow U of T students at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work how to run similar dance-based workshops of their own.