About YCC - Youth Centres of Calgary

YCC operates out of welcoming, warm, home-like settings within walking distance of school or home in vulnerable communities.

Every day after school and during the breaks, kids aged 9-15 run to our centre for healthy snacks, a conversation with a university student role model, access to technology, a chance to play a sport, take a free music lesson, read a book in a quiet reading space, and paint a canvass. After a hot dinner, served by a mom, they do a chore and take a cookie for the walk home (most of them to Calgary Housing).

We are open every weekday during after-school hours when youth are most at risk of getting into or causing trouble.

Police and studies show that with safe spaces like ours, crime goes down, high school graduation goes up, kids don’t get into as much trouble, gang membership goes down, and families are supported.

And it works because of the many, incredibly generous, compassionate people in this city who make YCC - Youth Centres of Calgary’s safe spaces a reality for many of Calgary’s youth.