Yúusnewas
568 Seymour St xmkym, Swxwú7mesh and slilwta tmx V6B 3J5 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Join the creative team for First Directions 2021! Learn about this exciting program, which brings Indigenous youth together from across the province to develop short videos, on December 15 at 7pm as we discuss this year’s theme: criminalization. You can learn more at https://www.youthco.org/fdcreatives. Yúusnewas is looking for Indigenous youth in BC who are artists and creators, from social media platforms to beading to visual art, and anything in between, to join our ...creative team. This team will have paid opportunities to develop art and social media content for various aspects of First Directions, including creating art for our program tshirt, and for other swag for all our program participants. Indigenous youth who participate in this event will receive a $50 honouraria. Youth will also be paid for art and/or social media content created as part of this project, ranging from $75 to $250, depending on the piece. We will discuss price points before content is submitted. See more

Did you know YouthCO is able to offer financial support to youth living with HIV and/or Hep C in BC? Our financial support services can help us with costs that support our wellbeing, basic necessities, and educational and career development. We provide this financial support to people who are: Youth, up to, and including, 29 years old Based in what is now called British Columbia... Currently living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C Experiencing financial barriers or challenges We will get in touch with everyone who applies, even if we are not able to offer financial support right away. Learn more at http://youthco.org/financialsupports. Artwork by A. Hudnall.

Join us for a special Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week Digital Screening of Healing Inner Voices on Thursday, December 3 at 11am PT! Register at https://healinginnervoices.com/. Following the screening, there will be a Peer-led Talking Circle with the film participants.

RSVP by Friday (November 20) to receive your beading kit in time for this event for Indigenous youth currently living in BC! Join us on December 9 at 6pm for our online beading workshop with Nona from Mediocre Beaders. You can check out their work on Instagram @mediocrebeaders. New beaders and experienced beaders are welcome! We will be providing and mailing beading supplies to 20 Indigenous youth participants in BC who confirm their spot and mailing address by No...vember 20, whether by RSVPing below, connecting with us on social media, or calling or emailing. Learn more at http://www.youthco.org/mediocrebeaders. Mediocre Beaders specializes with fringe earrings, which we will be making at this workshop. Nona will be showing us a pattern and going over the steps with us. Come and hang out we would love to see you! Whether this is your first time beading, or you have been beading for awhile, join us for community, culture, and beading. We welcome you to stay for as long or as short as you would like! Culture is Healing is a monthly event for and by Indigenous youth. During these events, we come together to share cultural teachings and knowledge, and provide a safer space where we can have discussions on topics such as holistic well-being, harm reduction, sexuality, sexual health, HIV, and Hep C. This is a gender affirming space. We welcome Indigenous youth with all identities to share our space for Culture is Healing.

Our Culture is Healing program was created and designed by and for Indigenous youth to access cultural, spiritual, and traditional teachings, activities, and knowledge in Vancouver. Urban Indigenous youth may experience a unique kind of displacement due to colonization, and we made it our goal to improve cultural revitalization for Indigenous youth living in a large urban center. Culture is Healing also serves and aims to provide safer spaces for Indigenous youth to access pe...er support in the areas of sexual health and harm reduction. Learn more about our programs at http://youthco.org/yuusnewas. To us, a 'safer' space is a supportive, non-threatening environment that encourages open-mindedness, respect, a willingness to learn from others, as well as physical and mental safety. While we do our best to foster a safer space, we acknowledge that harm may still happen. As an organization we are committed to harm reduction, in this context we are committed to mitigating the harm that may happen in our spaces and learning from such instances. We strive to work together as a community to keep each other safe and to hold space for our various and intersecting identities. See more