Youth Outreach
About this resource
The Burnside Gorge Community Association offers outreach support services and programs to youth under the age of 19.
Youth outreach workers aim to form positive, healthy, trusting and proactive relationships with youth and build collaborative working relationships with other key community partners.
Youth outreach workers provide:
- Individuals and group counseling
- Crisis intervention
- Family support and mediation
- Conflict resolution and peer mediation
- Anger management
- Life skills training
- Assistance in meeting basic needs
- Employment assistance
- Assistance in setting goals, identifying services and programs required to meet those goals and establishing a holistic plan
- Direct support at the youth centre
Youth outreach workers aim to form positive, healthy, trusting and proactive relationships with youth and build collaborative working relationships with other key community partners.
Youth outreach workers provide:
- Individuals and group counseling
- Crisis intervention
- Family support and mediation
- Conflict resolution and peer mediation
- Anger management
- Life skills training
- Assistance in meeting basic needs
- Employment assistance
- Assistance in setting goals, identifying services and programs required to meet those goals and establishing a holistic plan
- Direct support at the youth centre
Details
Resource type
Counselling, Employment Skill Development, Family Support, Life Skills
Disabilities
Acquired Brain Injury, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Behaviour Disorders and Conditions (ie. ADHD), Blind / Visual Impairment, Cerebral Palsy, Deaf / Hard of Hearing, Deaf-Blind, Down Syndrome , Dual Diagnosis, Epilepsy / Seizure Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Spectrum Disorders , Intellectual / Developmental Disability, Learning Disorder / Disability, Mental Health , Neuromuscular Disorders, Other / I don't know, Paraplegia / Quadriplegia, Physical Disability / Mobility Impairment, Schizophrenia , Speech Impairment / Social / Communication Disorders, Spina Bifida, Substance Use/Addiction
Age
12-19
Eligibility
Access to the program may be through self-referral or referral from a doctor, nurse, or other professional.
Location
Regions
Vancouver Island South
Cities
Colwood, Esquimalt, Langford, Saanich, Victoria, View Royal
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