We're excited to announce some familiar faces returning for the next LEVEL Youth Policy Program! They will soon be joined by many more policy leaders and community organizers who can’t…
Hope Eduan Alica saw how systems could fail people. At YPP, she learned how to influence those systems through policy change. When working in social services in her early 20s,…
At LEVEL Youth Policy Program, Roberta Longclaws found a way to blend her lived experience into her advocacy to support parents like herself Photo caption: Roberta moved the audience on…
What is one policy change you would make for your community? LEVEL Youth Policy Program can teach you how to start making that change a reality. Applications are now open…
As the LEVEL Youth Policy Program wraps up this year, participants showcase their work through powerful presentations. The LEVEL Youth Policy Program, an initiative run by Vancouver Foundation, is designed…
In a world where stories are always competing for our attention, our YPP cohort benefitted from learning how to use journalism and the media to share their policies. They had…
In May, after three months of online sessions, the YPP cohort finally met in-person for the first time! They gathered in Victoria to learn about Indigenous governance and attended several…
In the third module of the Youth Policy Program (YPP), participants challenged their own thinking about holding power and creating change. Andrea Reimer, a former three-term Vancouver city councillor, facilitated…
The Youth Policy Program cohort is now in the second month of their program. In the second module, participants learned about public policy in B.C. In one session titled Indigenous…
This year, we’re thrilled to welcome 16 new faces to the 2024 Youth Policy Program! Over the next six months, they’ll be embarking on a journey to learn about public…