YouthCore.ca

About YouthCore
Welcome to YOUTHCORE.CA This website is all about young people in the Greater Victoria area connecting, learning and enjoying our communities in safe and positive ways. This site is full of information - so much in fact that we have a few options for you to find stuff. You can see things (1) by Date on the calendar, (2) through pictures and place on the map, or (3) by specific topics, needs and interests with our programs database. The YouthCore.ca portal receives over 500,000 hits annually, and over 33,000 pages are accessed monthly (as of July 2010). The success of YouthCore.ca is shared by the youth and youth-serving community of Greater Victoria. For support in uploading your own program information, contact Caitlin at youth[at]bchealthycommunities.ca This site is still growing too! We want to know what you like, don't like, or think we could do better. Have feedback? email us at admin@youthcore.ca

About YouthCore

Welcome to YOUTHCORE.CA

This website is all about young people in the Greater Victoria area connecting, learning and enjoying our communities in safe and positive ways. This site is full of information - so much in fact that we have a few options for you to find stuff.

You can see things (1) by Date on the calendar, (2) through pictures and place on the map, or (3) by specific topics, needs and interests with our programs database.

The YouthCore.ca portal receives over 500,000 hits annually, and over 33,000 pages are accessed monthly (as of July 2010). The success of YouthCore.ca is shared by the youth and youth-serving community of Greater Victoria. For support in uploading your own program information, contact Caitlin at youth[at]bchealthycommunities.ca

This site is still growing too! We want to know what you like, don't like, or think we could do better.
Have feedback? email us at admin@youthcore.ca

What We Do
YouthCore is a really cool project with lots of different opportunities and initiatives for youth. What is YouthCore? • A youth engagement program focused on building a wide range of community capacity and youth leadership opportunities • We work with youth up to 30 years of age • We are the home of the Youth Service Provider Network and creators of the http://www.YouthCore.ca and http://www.YouthCoreProgram.ca Online Communications Portals for Youth • We also support collaborative and partnership models that allow individuals to work across sectors on innovative projects • We have a YouthCore Steering committee that began last year that boasts a 50% adult, 50% youth representation to help support, guide and create capacity for YouthCore • In the past year we have engaged directly with over 1000 youth in Greater Victoria, and trained 588 youth in Community Youth Asset Mapping Come back soon for exciting updates on new funding opportunities with YouthCore and the SPARK Initiative Call us at 250.356.0876 or email us at youth@bchealthycommunities.ca to learn more

What We Do

YouthCore is a really cool project with lots of different opportunities and initiatives for youth.

What is YouthCore?
• A youth engagement program focused on building a wide range of community capacity and youth leadership opportunities
• We work with youth up to 30 years of age
• We are the home of the Youth Service Provider Network and creators of the http://www.YouthCore.ca and http://www.YouthCoreProgram.ca Online Communications Portals for Youth
• We also support collaborative and partnership models that allow individuals to work across sectors on innovative projects
• We have a YouthCore Steering committee that began last year that boasts a 50% adult, 50% youth representation to help support, guide and create capacity for YouthCore
• In the past year we have engaged directly with over 1000 youth in Greater Victoria, and trained 588 youth in Community Youth Asset Mapping

Come back soon for exciting updates on new funding opportunities with YouthCore and the SPARK Initiative

Call us at 250.356.0876 or email us at youth@bchealthycommunities.ca to learn more

Meet the Team

	Caitlin YouthCore Program Coordinator youth@bchealthycommunities.ca My name is Caitlin and I am the Program Coordinator for the YouthCore Program and the SPARK Initiative. I am so excited and feel so privileged to be a part of this learning community. Part of my job is to support past, present, and future SPARK Grantees to the best of my ability in developing, implementing, and evaluating their change projects. Sometimes this means I help write grant applications, or help navigate people and systems; other times, I act as a sounding board for your ideas and help you flesh out an action plan. I am also responsible for helping support other youth service providers in similar ways. Please feel free to drop me a line at the office any time - 250.356.0876 - I'd love to hear from you!
	Nev Gibson Programmer nev@indivision.ca Nev is the head programmer of this site. His experience building and running LiveVictoria.com and LiveVan.com have helped shape the design of the Youthcore site.
	Katie Shaw YouthCore Program Manager katie@lifecyclesproject.ca Katie has worked with youth for over nine years both front line, as a youth group coordinator and a program manager. She has worked in Nelson and lived in Victoria for five years now. Katie was part of the community group that initiated the YouthCore program and worked with Nev to develop the original framework for this website. Katie is also the Regional Facilitator for Vancouver Island with BC Healthy Communities and a Graduate Student at the University of Victoria. Katie is passionate about YouthCore and believes it has the potential to continue to grow.

Disclaimer
We do our best to maintain links to reputable sites, but we cannot guarantee the accuracy of other websites (or their advertisers), since these sites change often. Please be cautious about any information you read online. If you find one of the links on this website offensive, out of date, or otherwise inappropriate, please contact us at admin@youthcore.ca with the URL, Place or Program name and the reason for your concern, so that we can review the link. Thank you!

Disclaimer

We do our best to maintain links to reputable sites, but we cannot guarantee the accuracy of other websites (or their advertisers), since these sites change often. Please be cautious about any information you read online.

If you find one of the links on this website offensive, out of date, or otherwise inappropriate, please contact us at admin@youthcore.ca with the URL, Place or Program name and the reason for your concern, so that we can review the link.

Thank you!