About Us

Choices for Youth is a program of the Cariboo Friendship Society which is a nonprofit organization.  The Choices program provides youth, ages 13-24, the opportunity to gain access to numerous activities and services which include:

- Computer and internet access for help with research for school work or just for personal use
-Pool Tournaments for which we give out prizes such as hackey sacks, toques, etc., and/or  treats
-Board games such as MAD GAB, Twister, Pictionary, Scrabble, ect.
-Dinners, we make hamburgers, hotdogs, chili, floats, Chinese food, ect.
 


-Sista Talk Group meets every Thursday from 5:00pm till 7:00pm.  Some activities included in this girls night are making posters about yourself or how you feel, talks on any topic that might be concerning you and anything you would like to talk to girls about, hair dying, painting our nails, watching chick flicks, and lots, lots more! Come out Thursdays and find out for yourself what Girls Night is all about!!

The Choices program promotes making healthy lifestyle choices, information on referrals, advocacy for youth ages 13-29, provide peer support for youth, give youth a voice, help them to change the community that they live in, promote leadership and education, and empower youth to make good decisions.

The Choices for Youth program was created in 1998 and has been going strong ever since.
 

Youth Council
PAYC  Provincial Aboriginal Youth Counsel, February 3, 2006 (PAYC Day)

We took the youth swimming for one of our activities.