Mountainside Secondary School: PE 10 Wellness
Students have historically had a difficult time completing PE10 (grad requirement). Wellness is a non-competitive PE class created to increase participation and attendance while giving students opportunities they may not have had in the past. Grant funds will be used to allow students to participate in yoga, climbing, snowshoeing and driving range sessions.
Middlepeace Clinical Counselling Society: Youth Leadership
This project is to provide adolescents and youth a safe forum to practice leadership, project planning, interpersonal connection building, and public speaking. Children and youth often fear and avoid public speaking or presentation. Anxiety for school project and fear of failure cause challenges and isolation.
Soap for Hope Canada: Essential Hygiene Products for Vulnerable Youth
Provide basic hygiene products at no charge (soap, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, lotion, menstrual products, toothbrushes, toothpaste, brushes, etc.) Works with established community facilities, schools and non-profits to identify youth needing products.
Washington Kids Foundation: Eslha7an Program
Program to promote mental and physical health through fitness (training, nutrition, strength, team building), mentorship (self esteem/confidence, 1:1 coaching, fostering positive relationships) and learning (developing effective studying skills, creating space to explore new topics).
Get Out and Play
Two free annual sports day events for North Vancouver families in summer and winter to promote physical activity and connect youth to local sports. Volunteers run activities/sport stations.
Air Cadet Youth Training Program
Contributes to the development and formation of youth in the community through organizational training, field exercises, survival training, marksmanship and flying instruction.
North Shore Girls
A group for neurodiverse teen girls with a goal to provide and organize activities in the community, establish friendships and support independence.
Junior Achievement BC: Success Skills for North Vancouver Youth
This program prepares youth to demonstrate awareness of self-efficacy in skill attainment and career development, identify specific skills required for effective collaboration in short and long-term situations, understand the fundamentals of critical thinking and problem solving skills, use communication techniques to enhance their communication with others and investigate tools for conflict resolution and how to come to a consensus with those who have differing ideas.
CityHive Youth Engagement Society: CityShapers at City Hall
Equity-based civic education classroom program offered to elementary and secondary schools across Metro Vancouver, working with municipal governments to host engaging and low-barrier field trips.
Ridgeway Elementary School: ReconciliAction Ravens
Ridgeway's Indigenous Education Student Committee purchased two looms last year to do a school-wide weaving project. The students from Reconiliaction Ravens will guide students and faculty through teachings about Indigenous perspectives and moving forward with courage.
Mountainside Secondary School: Developing Social Skills Through Gaming
A weekly after school Dungeons and Dragons Group. The group facilitates social connections, peer relations and builds social skills through gaming. The group offers these students opportunities to develop leadership and confidence with the possibility of earning course credits for participation.
Youth Unlimited North Shore: Mobile Youth Drop-In Expansion to Sutherland
YU's mobile drop-in has expanded to include the Sutherland neighbourhood (as well as Carson Graham & Mountainside) by invite from RCMP and in collaboration with NVSD and CNV. The area was requested due to students' destructive behavior and targeted as in need of support.
Sutherland Secondary School: Girls Club
Provides a space for the Girls Group to connect and learn about healthy relationships/sexuality, safe social media use, community resources, self care, tools and skills for building friendships, resilience, and staying safe. Guest speakers will provide insight into different topics. The club is a prevention piece with activities focused on self care, social-emotional well being and being informed on community resources.
Queen Mary Community Elementary: Body Science Workshops
Sexual health education sessions with in-class workshops for 1-1.5hr sessions per grade over two days. Teachers support learning through workshops and facilitate further discussions in class and at home. Parents of students in grade 1 and 2 are invited to take part in the workshops during the day.
Crafternoon
Arts enrichment program that facilitates youth in enhancing their creativity and development of fine motor skills. This program is hosted at Driftwood Village Cohousing's common house for children and youth who live in the community.
Fearless: Girls’ Empowerment Camp
The camp was created to educate and empower pre-teen and teenage girls and gender diverse youth, providing them with knowledge and tools to navigate adolescence. Camp sessions include learning opportunities, workshops, bonding, crafts and activities, and an outdoor trip.
Community Crochet
Stations containing the beginnings of a crochet blanket with yarn, a crochet hook, and instructions are set up at community organizations in North Vancouver. The goal is for youth who come across it to add rows of crochet until the blanket is finished. All of the blankets created by Community Crochet will be donated to Blanket BC.
CityFest 2024
BC's largest youth festival taking place annually during Youth Week. Cityfest has welcomed over 4000 visitors over the course of the day, the festival includes longboard races, a skateboard competition, performances by youth musicians, visual arts displays from young artists, food trucks, vendors, and community booths. Youth are key to the planning and execution of Cityfest, with volunteers between the ages of 10-24 assisting in event planning and management.
Carson Graham Secondary: Beyond the Four Walls
Provides experiential learning and place-based education for students through field trips in BC, primarily in North Vancouver. Students lack opportunities for experiential learning and place-based education; there is not enough funding to support and implement a fully Indigenized teaching practice in schools. Students are more engaged when learning happens on the field.