Youth Involvement

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference." -Aristotle

Welcome to Youth Get Involved. I am here because I am tired of hearing only the negative in the news, social media chatter, and the overall community voice about gangs and drugs. I believe keeping youth away from all of those things has a simple answer; involvement. Don't get me wrong - I understand that regardless of how involved a youth is they may still fall in the wrong crowd or end up doing the same things we are trying to steer them away from. This is not a magic solution - this is simply the solution that has worked for myself and the people that I know that made it through those rough years okay. How can you argue against it if you don't try? Let's focus on prevention as a community before it gets to the intervention or sorrow part.

There are many different types of involvement that are important along the way. This website is created to show you so many different ways you can get involved as a youth (or how you can get your children involved if you're a parent). My goal is to show you the opportunities that include sports, but also a huge world beyond that.

I will be featuring youth and young adults from our local communities here in the Lower Mainland to showcase the individuals that don't show up in the news - because they are our hope. These are the youth that exemplify the leaders we want in the future.

There are so many organizations, resources, support, and great youth examples in our community; I'm here to bring awareness to as many of them as I can.

My goal is to inspire parents. There is enough happening in the news doing otherwise.