To offer young people an opportunity to engage in service projects that are challenging, rewarding and educational. To promote among young people and residents a greater understanding and appreciation for the diversity of their community. To promote a lifetime ethic of service among young people. Youth are valuable and contributing community members who can change the world for the better. Youth who learn service today will live service tomorrow.
Youth deserve respect.
The purpose of YVCC was to meet the need for developing Youth Volunteer service opportunities and to answer the call for establishing the YVCC program across Canada. Through research for his senior public policy thesis paper, he discovered that volunteer opportunities for youth between the ages of 11-18 were not consistently available. He found that existing programs did not offer challenging and rewarding experiences to youth of all backgrounds. From this research, Battey designed the YVCC model. YVCC began in Calgary as an extension of the American model.