Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows

Presently, services and programs are offered in the Tri Cities (Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody). The following programs are offered:

- Youth Empowerment Worker: The Youth Empowerment program is a referral-based program that is open to all youth who are facing barriers between the ages of 12 – 23. You may self-refer or be referred to one of our Youth Empowerment Workers (YEWs) through other service providers, agencies, RCMP, MCFD, and/or school. The purpose of the Youth Empowerment program is to provide youth with one-to-one support geared towards their personal development, long-term goals, and well-being. This program can help youth learn to manage anxiety/depression, relationships, life skills, substance use/misuse, peer pressure, school concerns, mentorship, and trauma.
- Junior Employee Program: Provides youth with employment readiness skill development and training. In this program we have hired youth to be Peer Mentors in our after-school programs or Jr. Outreach Youth Workers for Project Reach Out. These youth are hired by our agency and work for us while learning how to become successful in the workforce.
- Career Building: An employment program to serve the youth of the Tri-cities! This innovative program partners with Work BC and other non-profits in the Tri-Cities catchment to provide youth up to 24 years old with job skills training, interviewing skills, resume building and finally access to the employment market.
- Youth Gour-Made: This program is offered in a mobile and virtual setting so youth participants can learn fundamental life skills such as pre-cutting and pre-measuring your ingredients (mise en place), learning what a boiling point is at Fahrenheit and Celsius, and how to cook all the ingredients together, right in the comfort of their own home. Each week the Gour-Made team delivers right to your front door a recipe of the week, the food parcels with all the ingredients needed to complete the recipe of the week, enough ingredients for youth participants to feed their entire household dinner with the recipe of the week, and a recipe card with step-by-step cooking instructions.
- Art Journaling Group: An 8-week, strength-based after-school program. Each week is themed with a topic of conversation such as consent, boundaries, what do healthy relationships look like, and many other important life space topics of conversation for our youth to explore. Each topic of conversation is paired with a corresponding art assignment for their journal. We also teach a new art technique each week to complement the art assignment.
- Project Reach Out: also known as “The Bus,” is an innovative award-winning mobile youth centre. The bus can be a mobile one-stop-shop for youth in need of accessing food, clothing, winter gear, blankets, sexual health supplies, harm reduction supplies including Naloxone, personal hygiene supplies, and more. PRO also provides sexual health and drug education, counselling support, conflict resolution, referrals, and anything else that our team of Outreach Youth Workers can support our youth with. This bus is LGBTQ2S+ friendly and operates with a harm reduction approach. The bus typically operates in the evening, specific days may vary depending on the season.