http://youthinbc.com Be heard. Get help. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:13:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I came to the club drunk with a fake ID Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me! I've been with 10 women who got HIV Now don't you wanna grow up to be just like me! I got genital warts and it burns when I pee Don't you wanna grow up to ... http://youthinbc.com/finding-someone-to-look-up-to/ Closing Time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end - Semisonic, Closing Time One of the unfortunate realities of what we do here at Youth in BC is that the program has an opening and closing time.  We do what we can between noon and 1am pacific time, but then where ... http://youthinbc.com/where-to-go-after-hours/ He who has health has hope; He who has hope has everything. - Arab proverb One of the more amusing links to get passed around this week came courtesy of the Middlesex-London Health Unit (link), a public education body out in Ontario.  It's called Adventures in Sex City, and it's a web-based ... http://youthinbc.com/adventures-in-sex-city-and-the-steve-cowan-scholarship/ I was there when you ...shone as bright as Bethlehem from afar I was there when you were ...young and strong and perverted and everything that makes ...a young man a star, oh you were a star - Chantal Kreviazuk, "Surrounded" It's been less than a month and already we find ourselves lighting yet another candle, this ... http://youthinbc.com/lost-and-found/ "I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill." - Erma Bombeck So you may have heard that the Olympics are coming to Vancouver... next week no less. As the opening ceremonies approach, the reaction to the Olympics has been mixed, as if we're not really sure ... http://youthinbc.com/2010-olympics/ Nobody knows, nobody knows but me That I sometimes cry, if I could pretend that I'm asleep When my tears start to fall I peek out from behind these walls I think nobody knows, nobody knows, no - Pink, Nobody Knows In Canada, the first full week of February is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.  For ... http://youthinbc.com/celebrating-our-natural-sizes/ Phone: 250-386-8282 Address: 2117 Vancouver Street, Victoria BC, V8T 3Z9 Web: www.vyes.ca/keys.html The Kiwanis Emergency Youth Shelter, a 10 bed facility, providing services to youth between the ages of 13 and 18 who have no safe place to stay. KEYS responds to a wide range of crisis, including parent/teen conflict, abuse issues and youth ... http://youthinbc.com/kiwanis-empowerment-youth-shelter-keys/ Phone: 1-877-789-6884 Web: www.hollyburn.ca/D309.cfm The North Shore Youth Safe House is a place where youth, 13 to 18 years old, can come and find a comfortable and secure place to stay. The Safe House is staffed by caring and friendly youth workers 24 hours a day, 7-days a week. A stay ... http://youthinbc.com/north-shore-youth-safe-house/ Phone: 604-261-7827 After 10pm, call After Hours: 604-660-4927 Located in south-west Vancouver.  Shelter for youth, ages 13-15.  Referral via social worker or MCFD After-Hours.  Usually requires parent/guardian consent.  Family setting, serving teens not in care who ordinarily live in Vancouver, Richmond or North Shore. http://youthinbc.com/marcs-place/ Phone: 604-251-4844 Address: 1607 E. Hastings St., Vancouver, BC V5L 1S7 Web: vafcs.org Email: info@vafcs.org VAFCS is a community centre that provides social, cultural, recreational, and other life-enhancing programs and services to aboriginal people making the transition to urban society. Programs include: A recreational program for youth with drop-in sessions, sports, arts & crafts. Our Elders ... http://youthinbc.com/vafcs/