Our Mission

To provide outreach support and services to youth in our communities.

About Access Youth Outreach Services

We meet youth where they are, to help them get to where they want to go.

Access Youth is an award-winning, independent, progressive and innovative community-based, registered charity established in 1993. We deliver innovative programs and services for youth ages 12-23 who are marginalized and/or experiencing multiple barriers. Our programs promote mental wellness, food security, and connection back to community.

Access Youth's core program, Project Reach Out, is the first mobile drop-in centre and outreach program for street-involved youth. Since its inception, Project Reach Out has made over 35,000 connections in the community, providing engagement with youth. 

The Youth Empowerment Worker program is a referral-based program that is open to all youth who are facing barriers between the ages of 12 – 23. With the goal of family strengthening (however families are defined), the Youth Empowerment Worker program focuses on four key areas of support: Individual, peer, school and community. 

Youth Gour-Made is a one-of-kind food security program that has no cost to youth and families. Each week the Gour-Made team delivers meal kits right to the front door of each youth. The meal kits include a recipe of the week with step-by-step cooking instructions and all the ingredients needed to complete the recipe for the household. Currently households range for 2 persons to 10 persons. At the start of each session, each youth also receives a starter kit with key staples such as oil, flour, herbs and spices to be used each week for cooking. 

The Art Journaling Group is a weekly after-school program. Each week is a themed conversation around topics like consent, boundaries, healthy relationships, substance use/abuse and many other important topics of conversation for our youth to explore together with a facilitator. Each topic is paired with a corresponding art project that complements the topic.