Connect Strengthen Protect

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Get Empowered

Learn how to identify risk factors and warning signs to deter young people from criminal activity.
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Protective Factors

Help our youth build resiliency by focusing on protective factors.
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Advice to Parents

How do I talk so my kids will listen and listen so my kids will talk?
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Empowering Action, Reducing Risk.  

Resources to Keep Kids out of Gang Life 
 

Directly informed by youth, this first-of-its-kind resource offers tips, tools and information to empower parents, caregivers and other trusted adults to build protective factors, reduce risk, and better understand the challenges youth face today. 

 

Empower Surrey starts with youth engagement and dialogue on safety. To understand the experiences of young people we asked Surrey youth about the way they experience places, events, and issues in their community. Information on this website reflects those experiences.

Youth using a megaphone is shown shouting out words Youth Truth, stories and experiences about individual struggles, community safety and connection
Stories and experiences shared by youth about individual struggles, community safety and connection.

 

Sexual Identity

Career Stress

Substance Use