SCY is one of many organizations in Canada working to make the world a better place for children and youth. We work in collaboration with a wide variety of organizations and groups, cross-promoting their programs and activities whenever possible.
Acting Together
Acting Together is a strength-based project aimed at preventing youth gang involvement. The project represents collaboration between academic researchers and community partners.
The aim of AT-CURA project is to identify factors that prevent youth from violent and gang-related criminal activities. Using mixed methodology of academic research (Quantitative) and community consultations (Qualitative), the project will provide an evidence-based foundation to create programs to foster the identified preventive factors among youth.
Canadian Child Care Federation
The importance of quality early learning and child care as an essential Canadian value and a right worth protecting and enhancing; the importance of quality delivery of early learning and child care as crucial elements in the healthy development of our children; and the importance of competent, well-trained professionals who deliver quality early learning and child care with passion and pride.
Canadian Children's Environmental Health Network
The Children’s Environmental Health Project was designed by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). It is intended to introduce clinicians (and their patients) to the fundamentals and broad context of children’s environmental health issues.
Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children
The mandate of the Coalition is to ensure a collective voice for Canadian organizations and youth concerned with the rights of children as described in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Summit for Children Declaration.
Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare
Provides access to research on Canadian child welfare programs and policies.
Caring for First Nations Children Society
Provides culturally competent training for the social workers employed by the Aboriginal Child and Family Service Agencies.
Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development
The mandate of the CEECD is to foster the dissemination of scientific knowledge on the social and emotional development of young children and the policies and services that influence this development.
A Children's House in Cyberspace
This is UNESCO's website and provides information and access to other web-based information on children's issues.
Equitas
Equitas’ programs provide frontline human rights defenders and educators, government officials as well as children and youth with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to promote human rights values and to combat inequality, exclusion and other forms of human rights abuse.
Federation of BC Youth in Care Networks
A youth-driven, provincial, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of young people in and from government care in BC, between the ages of 14 and 24.
First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition
A coalition of organizations and community groups that promote legislation, policy and practice that will enable children and youth to achieve their full potential and to participate in making a better world.
International Play Association
IPA is an international, non-government organization founded in Denmark in 1961, with members in close to 50 countries. IPA is an interdisciplinary organization which brings together people from a wide variety of professions including play-workers, planners, psychologists, educators, architects, academics, artists, researchers, childcare workers, landscape designers, health workers and many more.
Richmond Children First
Richmond Children First works with people and organizations to make Richmond a great place to raise children by making it easier for families to find out about programs and activities, working together to meet the needs of young children and their families, and raising awareness about the importance of the early years
UNICEF's Global Classroom
The goal of UNICEF Canada's Global Classroom program is to move a generation of Canadians from awareness of global issues affecting children to personal involvement and informed action. Working with educators, students, parents, and governments at all levels; the Global Classroom is fostering a commitment to social justice, human rights and support for Canada's humanitarian engagement on international issues in Canada's rising generation.