Local Youth Networks...
Here are some great local links to youth initiatives around Ottawa. Check further down for links to resources further abroad.
Child, Family & Youth Crisis Line of East. Ont.
Youth Ministries
Here’s a list of some of the more prominent United Church youth ministries in the Ottawa area. Contact them for more information about programming or how to come on board. They’d love to hear from you.
Helpful (or at least interesting) Links...
Sask. Conference Youth - www.unitedchurchyaya.ca
London Conference YAYA - www.yayan.ca
BC Conference Youth - www.yayaen.org
Maritime Conference Youth - www.youthforum.ca
Toronto Conference YAYA - www.torontoconference.ca/CF&CD%20Pages/childrenTeenAdult/youth.htm
Vancouver Presbytery YAYA - www3.telus.net/vanyaya/
Fraser Valley Presbytery YAYA - www.fraseryaya.com
Huron-Perth Presbytery Youth - www.h-ppresbytery.ca
Center for Parent-Youth Understanding - www.cpyu.org
Environmental Youth Alliance - www.eya.ca
Family Based Youth Ministry - www.familybasedym.com
Free the Children - www.freethechildren.org
Fuller Youth Institute - www.fulleryouthinstitute.org
Future Quest - www.queensu.ca/theology/F_Quest/index.shtml
Global Youth Connect - www.globalyouthconnect.org
Group Publishing - www.grouppublishing.com
Method X - www.methodx.org
Ontario Youth Parliament - www.oyp.on.ca
Otesha Project - www.otesha.ca
Princeton Institute for Youth Ministry - www2.ptsem.edu/iym
Simply Youth Ministry - www.simplyyouthministry.com
Tony Blair Faith Foundation - www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org
Way To Live – www.waytolive.org
Youth and Family Institute – www.youthandfamilyinstitute.org
Youth Specialties - www.youthspecialties.com
Habitat for Humanity - www.habitat.org
Intentional Communities - www.ic.org
Iona Community - www.iona.org.uk
La Paroquial San Lucas Toliman - www.dnu.org/service/sanlucas.html
L'Arche - www.larchecanada.org
Romero House - www.romerohouse.org
Ecology Ottawa - www.ecologyottawa.ca
Idealist - www.idealist.org
Intentional Communities - www.ic.org
Natural Life - www.life.ca
Sierra Club - www.sierraclub.ca
Sierra Youth Coalition - www.syc-cjs.org
Sustainability Network - http://sustain.web.net
Trees, Water, People - www.treeswaterpeople.org
Young Environmental Professionals - www.yepcanada.ca
Canadian Churches Forum for Global Ministries - www.ccforum.ca
Encounter World Religions - www.worldreligions.ca
Interfaith Congress - www.interfaithcongress.org
Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives - www.kairoscanada.org
North American Interfaith Network - www.nain.org
Scarboro Missions - www.scarboromissions.ca
Belief Net - www.beliefnet.com
Catholic Worker - www.catholicworker.org
Emergent Village - www.emergentvillage.com
Human Kindness Foundation - www.humankindness.org
Jubilee Partners - www.jubileepartners.org
Ordinary Radicals - www.theordinaryradicals.com
Pax Christi - www.paxchristi.net
Practicing Our Faith - www.practicingourfaith.com
Canadian Peace Alliance - www.acp-cpa.ca
Centre for Social Justice - www.socialjustice.org
Christian Peacemaker Teams – www.cpt.org
Citizens for Public Justice - www.cpj.ca
Council of Canadians - www.canadians.org
Development & Peace - www.devp.org
Global Education Network - www.global-ed.org
Invisible Children - www.invisiblechildren.com
Ontario Coalition for Social Justice - www.ocsj.ca
Ontario Council for International Cooperation - www.ocic.on.ca
Ontario Public Interest Research Group - www.opirg.org
Potters for Peace - www.pottersforpeace.org
School of Americas Watch - www.soaw.org
Canada World Youth - www.cwy-jcm.org
Cross-Cultural Solutions - www.crossculturalsolutions.com
Global Exchange - www.globalexchange.org
Jesuit Volunteer Program - www.jesuitvolunteers.org
Katimavik - www.katimavik.org
One World Global Education - www.ablelogic.com/ow/hp.htm
Ryan’s Well Foundation - www.ryanswell.ca
Volunteer Abroad - www.volunteerabroad.ca
Youth Challenge International - www.yci.org
Ottawa Presbytery Youth Programming
Every year, Ottawa Presbytery provides some youth programming to supplement the work of congregational youth ministry.
If you’d like to help with the leadership of any event, email our YAYA Minister, Rev. Hilary Merritt at hmerritt@uccanottawa.org
