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Broadway Youth Resource Centre (BYRC)
The Broadway Youth Resource Centre offers a "one stop" approach to integrated community based social/health services. Their goal is to create an environment that is youth positive, accountable to the community, and offers a continuum of service that will decrease the possibility that Midtown at-risk youth will become street entrenched. They serve youth between the ages of 10 and 24 who can benefit from peer and professional support and also operate a free drop-in clinic for youth 25 and under.

Check Your Head
Check Your Head: the Youth Global Education Network (CYH) is a youth-driven organization located in Vancouver. CYH educates and organizes young people to become active on issues such as labour rights, the environment and free trade as well as corporate threats to democracy, all through the framework of understanding globalization. CYH provides education, resources, training and support for youth, who then facilitate workshops, organize events and coordinate projects promoting education and action around issues of globalization and social justice.

Kinex
Kinex is the youth program of The Self Help Resource Association of BC (SHRA). They are a team of youth working to promote the mental health and well being of other youth in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Their focus is on peer support and the many different ways that it can be delivered (and experienced !). They believe that peer support can be enhanced with skill building, community involvement and community connectedness, hence their holistic youth community approach. To get a more in-depth yet quick backgrounder on Kinex and view their current scheduled training days... check out their website !

Leave Out ViolencE (LOVE)
Leave Out ViolencE is a non-profit organization that provides young people with the skills and support they need not only to live violence-free, but also to become advocates of anti-violence and share their views with their peers as well as schools and communities. Through innovative programming such as their 13 week Photojournalism Program, Leave Out ViolencE youth are empowered to express their feelings about the causes, impacts, and solutions to youth violence through photography and creative writing.

The REAL Power Youth Society
The Real POWER Youth Society provides young women between the ages of 13 to 15 in the Vancouver area, with an opportunity to come together in a youth and female-centered environment. They address real issues in the lives of youth in a fun enviornment, to raise awareness, develop critical thinking skills and together develop action-oriented strategies towards change. They offer two main programs. One, is a summer camp called Power Camp Vancouver and the other is a school workshop series called the Real Power Workshop Series.

Safe Harbour Youth Ambassador Diversity Program
The Safe Harbour program promotes an inclusive BC that celebrates strong, vibrant, and diverse communities. Staff from businesses, agencies, and institutions attend a free, 2-hour training and leave with a greater awareness and appreciation of their community’s range of diversity and a commitment to equitable treatment for all. Someone who recognizes the Safe Harbour decal in their neighbourhood can enter knowing that their needs will be met as a newly-arrived immigrant, as an Aboriginal youth, or as someone who has a disability. Safe Harbours are places where staff and community members are creating a shared culture together, one that recognizes the value of social inclusion.

Built upon the success of Safe Harbour, the Youth Ambassador Diversity Program provides training to high school students to act as Youth Ambassadors - role models for other youth and facilitators of Children and Teen Workshops. The workshops address issues of racism and hate and educate children and youth about how to respond to discrimination by finding a safe harbour within their school or community or a safe adult to help. Youth are encouraged to work together to welcome and respect everyone’s differences no matter what culture, ethnicity, religion, class, age, ability, gender, or sexuality they represent. These youth are standing up for diversity and creating safer, more welcoming environments in their schools and communities.

Taking IT Global Canada
This is the Canadian chapter of a global movement of young people networking and sharing their ideas and stories about how to change their communities and the world in positive ways. There are over 8,500 members in Canada and 75,000 young people involved worldwide. This is a web-based platform for ideas and expression, a resource of opportunities, and a network of inspirational young people and their projects. You can submit articles and exhibit artwork in their Global Gallery.

Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada (Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance)
Founded in 1995 with the help of the Philippine Womens Centre of BC, this organization is the result of the dynamism of Filipino youth and their desire to struggle for the empowerment and genuine development of Filipino youth. They work around issues of racism, identity crisis, class domination, gendre oppression, and gay & lesbian oppression. They struggle for the genuine rights and welfare of the Filipinos in Canada and for national democracy in the Philippines.

Youth Action Effecting Change
Youth and the World Urban Forum - Vancouver 2006 "This website was created to kick off preparation for the World Urban Forum 2006 and to stimulate discussion and debate before, during and following the World Urban Forum 2006. "The purpose of the Forum is to engage youth in discussions about urban sustainability and to create significant change across generations in the field of sustainable development. The United Nations has challenged Canada to develop a more interactive and participatory Forum and these papers aim to facilitate that goal. Thinking, dialogue, and conclusions formed prior to and during the World Urban Forum will also contribute to Canada's urban agenda and will help to create a long-term legacy of knowledge and action around sustainability issues in Canada and the World."

Youth Down South - South Vancouver
This youth-driven website celebrates youth achievement in South Vancouver. It hosts online blogs on topics that matter to youth in South Vancouver and provides information on places and ways for young people to GetOut! and Get Involved! in South Vancouver.