Setting the Stage

To initiate Communities Building Youth Futures in the Alberni Clayoquot Region we reached out to youth and youth workers in the region to introduce the program and identify the priorities. From our engagement we learned that mental health, harm reduction, connection and belonging and connection to land and culture were prevalent themes. Also that youth programs faced capacity challenges, in order to address this feedback our first steps were to:

• Hired youth facilitators to engage throughout our region, bring up the youth voice and increase capacity for youth and youth programs to address priorities.
• Launched one time capacity grants to ensure valuable youth programs had the capacity to flourish
• Our youth facilitators have been active in the Alberni Valley, West Coast and Barkley communities supporting youth programs, building capacity and bringing forward youth voice to inform our next steps.
  

Youth Survey

Our youth workers are engaging youth in person and online – we want to know what is important to youth and how we should address the priorities identified in our region. One way we plan to do this is through the CBYF Youth Survey.

If you are a youth in the Alberni Clayoquot we want to hear from you!

Click HERE for the survey and let us know when you have completed to be entered into our monthly draw!

Alberni Clayoquot Plan on a Page

Part of our work with Tamarack Institute is to develop a plan on a page to communicate our priorities and combine our efforts with CBYF initiatives across Canada. In collaboration with youth across the region and youth workers the following data points, priorities and critical shifts were identified to move CBYF Alberni Clayoquot forward.