Outlook Community Youth Services

Helps youth develop healthy relationships with peers, families, significant others, and the community. Provides self-confidence and life skills training, as well as practical skills such as cooking, budgeting, and social, relationship management, and employment skills. Offers Youth Justice, in collaboration with youth probation officers, which provides intensive support and supervision (court-ordered one-to-one), monitors bail conditions (including curfew checks), and facilitates connections with community. Community Work Service provides youth with the opportunity to engage positively with the community, develop job skills, and improve employability through work placements. Also available to youth who have a court order to complete work service hours. Family Support promotes a healthy family environment through parental education and support services, such as effective parenting practices, conflict resolution and crisis management, and parent-teen communication skills. Youth Development assists youth in the care of Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) and transitioning to adulthood receive support of youth worker to help them live independently; also helps youth who cannot live at home and need safe, stable housing to maintain their youth agreement with MCFD. Program includes life skills training, employment-ready skills development, education planning, and learning about tenant rights. Outreach to Sexually Exploited Youth supports at-risk youth for exploitation, or those already being exploited, through individualized care planning, which can include finding safe and secure housing, getting into detoxification or counselling services, and offering a non-judgmental adult figure in their lives. Actively participates in the Burnaby-New Westminster community to promote education and awareness about exploitation; also active member of the Burnaby-New Westminster Task Force for at-risk and sexually exploited youth. Participation services offered through Outlook are open to youth in Burnaby. Most youth are referred by MCFD; when space allows, Outlook also open for self-referral and referrals from other social service professionals. Funded by MCFD.