From Care to Career: Unlocking Talent for Canada’s Future Workforce

Thanks to a committed community of donors, partners, and champions, Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada continues to expand access to education and opportunity for young people from care, helping more youth stay in school, graduate, and move toward meaningful careers.

This year’s Stand Up For Kids luncheon is both a recognition of collective progress and an invitation to go further.

Taking place on Thursday, June 18, 2026, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, this year’s event features a dynamic panel discussion: From Care to Career: Unlocking Talent for Canada’s Future Workforce, moderated by Peter Armstrong, CBC’s Senior Business Correspondent.  

This forward looking conversation will bring together cross-sector voices to explore how education, employers, and philanthropy can work together to ensure young people with lives experience in care –through no fault of their own face some of the most significant barriers to education and the labour market – are not left behind and are supported to succeed.  

Guests will: 

• Explore what it will take to strengthen pathways from education to meaningful careers for young people from care.  
• Learn how philanthropists, employers, and institutions can work together to unlock opportunity.
• Hear directly from young people as they share insights on barriers and enablers they navigated on their education and career journeys. 
• Understand how philanthropy can help test, strengthen, and scale solutions that improve outcomes and strengthen the workforce. 

Meet this year’s Moderator

Peter Armstrong, Senior Business Correspondent, CBC News

Peter Armstrong is the CBC’s senior business correspondent. He was a foreign correspondent and a parliamentary reporter for CBC News. Peter hosted the business program On the Money and World Report on CBC Radio. He is the author of the CBC newsletter Mind Your Business

Host and panelist details coming soon.