WHEN Club is a student group, affiliated with Women’s Healthy Environments Network (WHEN).  Established in 1994 as a Toronto-based non-profit organization, WHEN has served as a trusted source of credible tools and information for women on today’s relevant and emerging environmental health topics. 

Our mission is to extend the values and expertise of WHEN by educating gender-diverse youth and allies on minimizing their exposure to harmful environmental toxins, while simultaneously promoting eco-conscious and sustainable living. We will highlight the realities of toxic exposure for gender-diverse youth through events such as workshops, campaigns, and fundraisers. All of these initiatives will contribute toward our desire to create a community where individual experiences are honoured as points of action against intersectional environmental injustice.  

This group will operate using WHEN’s guiding principles outlined below:

• Supporting environmental and social consciousness to mobilize communities to take action towards building a toxic-free world
• Leveraging women and gender-diverse people as catalysts for change
• Engaging communities in ways that acknowledge social inequality and strive for inclusion
• Acting in ways that are collaborative and respectful, within an anti-oppressive and feminist framework
• Using credible, current and evidence-based information

As such, we believe that knowledge of the issues affecting us drives informed individual and communal action, empowering us to push for legislative change toward healthier environments for all gender-diverse people.