Encouraging Positive Connections
Trellis Youth programming provide a safe, welcoming place for youth to come after school, make friends, and participate in activities that encourage learning, expression, and a positive connection to community and family.
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Activities and Programs for Youth
Program offerings include:
- Cooking Club
- Teen Hangout
- Art & Recreation Nights
- Game and Movie Nights
- Learn Life Skills
- Homework Club
- Field Trips
- Volunteering
- Leadership Opportunities
Interested in Group Programming?
Please fill out the following form and email it to us along with programs you would like to attend.
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Building youth connections
Settlement Services supports newcomer youth to become healthy, integrated and self-sufficient adults by equipping them to meet their personal, social, community, educational and employment goals.
BYC addresses the developmental and settlement needs of newcomer youth through a comprehensive and culturally diverse service model that includes:
- Needs assessments
- Referrals
- Community connections
- Advocacy and support for system navigation
- One-to-one case management with ongoing supportive coaching
- Employment related services including employment skills workshops and connection to employment opportunities
- Cultural and recreational activities with positive adults and peers that promote community connections and building social networks;
- Family events that promote family togetherness and celebration of cultural diversity
- Community collaboration to reduce barriers and increase access to a wider range of community supports and resources
Are You Interested in Support for Newcomers?
Access to this program is by referral.
Referral Form
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Genesis Centre
- Alberta has the fourth highest number of newcomer youth in the country. Statistics Canada stated that Canada saw its largest influx ever of international immigrants in the spring of 2016 – 86,216 newcomers, and Alberta’s share of that number was 12,050, or nearly 14 percent of the total (June 2016).
- Studies show that there are significant settlement challenges for newcomer youth. They have a limited time to learn English, to adapt to a new culture, to catch up academically to Canadian-born students, and to develop the skills necessary to seek employment. Consequently, they are vulnerable to social isolation, poverty, depression and anxiety, dropping out of high school, unemployment and long-term challenges to integration.
- Multi-barriered newcomer youth need information and access to services, social and emotional support, employment support, and opportunities for cultural bridging so that they can develop the confidence, self-esteem, positive sense of identity, skills, resources and social capital necessary for them to become healthy, integrated self-sufficient adults.
- In partnership with IRCC (Immigration Refugees & Citizenship Canada) and FCSS (Family & Community Support Services), Trellis is able to offer multiple services to New to Canada Youth through our Building Youth Connections program.
Helping Young People Succeed
Planet Youth Calgary is a community-wide initiative focused on helping young people grow up healthy, connected and supported.
The initiative brings together parents, caregivers, researchers, schools, community organizations and government to better understand the experiences of youth and create environments where they can thrive.
Trellis Society is proud to support Planet Youth Calgary as a community partner, working alongside others across the city to strengthen the conditions that help young people succeed.
Learn more about the initiative and how you can get involved.
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Encouraging Belonging and Inclusion
The word Iiyika’kimaat, which means “to try hard” in Blackfoot, was gifted to the agency after consultation with elders. The Iiyika’kimaat program provides Indigenous youth, aged 12-21 years, an opportunity to reach their full potential through culturally-relevant and leadership-specific components and activities.
A key focus of our program is to encourage a youth’s sense of belonging and social inclusion from an Indigenous worldview by utilizing a strength-based approach to support the youth’s achievements, provide motivation, school engagement and a positive view of their future.
Using the Circle of Courage framework, a variety of cultural, recreational and informal mentorship opportunities are incorporated into the program with the intent to provide a positive outlet to explore their true potential. Mentorship can be one-on-one, informal, outreach or cultural and service connections.
Interested in this Program?
To learn more about the program or to sign up, please email us.
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