Contribute

Contribute

Investing in the futures of the youth on the Northside is a task for the whole community. CCYO is offering the model, the facility and crucially the relationship of trust built up over years with successive generations of youth.

Our community needs to come together to provide many of the skills, resources, opportunities, and networks to make this a sustainable, successful, community regeneration effort.

The cost of providing skills and opportunities to youth, as CCYO is doing, must be contrasted with the costs of not doing so; and seen in that light, youth outreach work is not simply poverty reduction, or providing extension education and training, but an investment – an excellent value investment – into the future of the community.

CCYO’s programs and initiatives have resulted in:

01 Programs

Assisting more than 350 youth through specific programs

02 Guidance

Guidance and outreach support to more than 1,000 individuals

03 Financial Support

Over $1,000,000 paid in youth wages and stipends

To help us continue this important and valuable work, here are two ways in which you can invest in the northside through Community CARES Youth Outreach:

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Helping today

Donations

CCYO is investing in youth, and investing in youth is investing in the future of our communities.

Donate

Helping tomorrow

Volunteering

We are asking you to put your heart and resources into sustaining and advancing the work of the organization within your community.

Volunteer

It was interesting because we had so much responsibility and freedom. Usually if you go into a place and tell them you were a drug addict they are probably not going to hire you and they aren't going to give you resources and freedom to handle money. Since they did that, someone putting the trust in you, made you not want to take advantage of it.

Shapes the course of my life choices

My experiences with CCYO enabled me to enhance my leadership skills, solidified my interest in and commitment to community development, and ultimately helped shape the course of my studies and life choices for many years to come.

Brian MacKinnon, former CCYO participant Now full-time Municipal Community Development Manager

The crucial thing is support

The crucial thing is to have the support of people believing in you, and lots of kids don't get that anywhere [else].

David Tizzard, former CCYO participant Now full-time carpenter and trainee electrician

They bettered my life

They bettered my life and my future wouldn't be the same without them.

Tammy Groves Former CCYO participant and staff member

The Hard times aren't so hard

I'm surprised at how the Hard times aren't always so hard when you're surrounded by the people who genuinely CARE.

Niki MacLean, former CCYO participant and staff Now full time call centre employee

World of Opportunity

The program opened up a world of opportunity I didn't know existed outside of the chaos I was used to.