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Get Out! Push Your Boundaries

Get Out! Push Your Boundaries was a pilot program of the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Park Board to get youth more active in arts and culture, sports and physical recreation, and in their communities. The goal was to enhance the long-term health, resilience and well-being of young people in the city. GetOut! gave out grants to youth and to community organizations, launched new youth recreation programs, worked with Youth Action Teams around the city to develop innovative new programs, and helped out with research, development, evaluation and networking.

During its pilot, GetOut! developed and/or supported over 70 different projects, programs and initiatives – involving over 1,500 young people from diverse communities. Some very important lessons about engaging less-active youth were learned and some important community networks were created. To find out more, please visit www.heygetout.ca .

GetOut! is currently doing some reconfiguring, and the City is working on a sustainable funding and organizational model to keep the spirit of GetOut! alive into the future. As a result, there are no GetOut! grants until further notice. Sorry. Please stay tuned…

For more info, please contact Steven R. Dang at steven.dang@vancouver.ca.


The Get Out! pilot program included:

  • A grants program with two streams, one for youth and the other for organizations partnering with youth, to implement projects that get youth more active
  • New youth recreation programs in community centres
  • GetOut! Youth Action Teams – groups of young people around the city, working together with the help of trained GetOut! facilitators, to research, design and carry out special projects and programs for youth in their communities
  • The GetOut! Ideas Factory, an in-house participatory research & development department, that also carried out administrative work like documentation & evaluation, to support reaching GetOut!'s goals
  • The GetOut! Ideas Factory website (www.heygetout.ca) that served as an online community forum for sharing ideas, stories and lessons learned