The SMART Fund
Currently Funded Programs - Youth-at-Risk
Dusk to Dawn
Family Services of Greater Vancouver
Provides a safe environment and an extensive, coordinated, and comprehensive social support network for street youth through the engagement of youth volunteers and peer mentors. Assists youth in moving off the street, supports them in embracing healthier lifestyles through skill development and employment initiatives. Youth who are part of the program also take an active role in advising Directions Youth Services on their programs and procedures.
I Can Choose, We Can Choose
Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society
Improves the overall health and well being of children and youth in Renfrew-Collingwood by developing and coordinating a community based drug and alcohol prevention program. Using peer-led education programs engages youth in leadership roles, provides information that enables children and youth to make positive choices, and builds positive relationships between children, youth, parents and community members around drug and alcohol issues.
L.I.F.E. – Learning to Improve Food Choices and Exercise
Sea to Sky Community Services Society
Provides access to healthy food, offer skill-build opportunities, and improve the physical and social health of at-risk youth in Pemberton and Squamish.
Our Youth, Our Future
Musqueam Indian Band
Offers capacity building activities to Musqueam youth to promote healthy lifestyles and develop self-esteem through cultural awareness and cultural teachings, educational workshops and physical activities. Supports leadership opportunities for the youth through an Advisory Youth Council.
Richmond Youth Media Program
Richmond Addiction Services Society
Engage youth, who are often hard to reach and disconnected from support services, to a program they will find attractive which help them build employment skills and link them to health and community services.
RSVP – Peer Leader Program
Family Services of Greater Vancouver
Creates opportunities for youth at risk to increase their ability to support others in their community and to develop their capacity to be leaders and role models.
Youth Coordinator and Youth Council for Broadway Youth Resource Centre (BYRC)
Pacific Community Resources Society
Provides at-risk-youth with meaningful volunteer opportunities in the Centre and in the community, thereby improving access and service provision to youth, and strengthening the capacity of youth to make healthy lifestyle decisions. Youth gain human service skills, develop a healthy social network, and work with other community members to address community issues. The program promotes leadership, communication, self-esteem, and self-efficacy for at-risk youth at the Broadway Youth Resource Centre.
