Are you passionate about supporting Indigenous young parents and their children, walking alongside them as unique individuals and connecting them to relevant resources and services? Do you feel called to empower Indigenous pregnant and parenting youth to improve their relationships, careers and day-to-day lives? Young Families is hiring a part-time or full-time Indigenous Outreach Worker to join our Surrey based team.
Sharon Graham, a loving and dedicated grandmother, has helped her family weather life’s storms — and to say the last few years have been stormy is a big understatement. Her granddaughters, Ashley, who is part of Youth Unlimited’s Jesters Theatre program, and her sister Danielle, have had a front row seat to those challenges. With the help of her husband, Ted, grandma Sharon has been a caregiver to the teens and their mom, Sherry, since 2003, when Danielle was born. During the pandemic, momma Sherry, who had already suffered a great deal in life, underwent multiple painful operations and eventually...
Are you passionate about reaching youth on the margins? Do you feel called to empower youth to feel safe and see their potential through art? Our Vancouver team is hiring an Artistic Director to steward our Creative Life team.
For Virginie, a single mother of seven in Kigali, Rwanda, life often seemed hopeless. With little income and no family support, Virginie could only imagine small dreams for her children. For most low-income children in Rwanda education ends at grade six, so Virginie’s hopes for her children ended there. “I was young and alone in caring for my children and struggling for life,” she says. “I thought, if my children could read and write, then that would be enough for them.” That all changed in 2007 when Virginie learned of a school sponsorship program at YFC’s newly founded Kigali Christian...
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