Life Skills
The Outreach Society has variety of programs to promote life-skills for youth focused on health, sport outdoor adventure, education and employment. Work with us & our implementation partners in your community this summer.
Right To Play
The Promoting Life-skills in Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) program partners with more than 86 First Nations communities and urban Aboriginal organizations across Canada to deliver safe, fun and educational programming for Aboriginal chidden and youth. Each uniquely tailored PLAY-based program is designed to enhance educational outcomes, improve peer-to-peer relationships, increase employability and improve physical and mental health amongst Aboriginal children and youth.
The Canadian Red Cross
The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviours to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency. Ages 11 to 15.
The Duke of Edinburghs Award
The Duke of Edinburghs Award is a non-competitive, internationally recognized program designed to encourage young people to develop positive skills and lifestyle habits. The award is about personal challenge and development and is adaptable according to each participant’s interests and abilities.
The strength of the award is our ability to readily partner with other youth organizations through leader development and resources sharing.
The award concept is one of individual challenge. It presents young people with a balanced, non-competitive program of voluntary activities which encourages personal discovery and growth, self-reliance, perseverance, responsibility to themselves and service to their community. The unique flexibility of the award makes it ideally suited to easy adaptation and integration into different cultures and societies. The basic principles of the award remain the same but the activities and delivery continue to evolve and adapt to suit the changing demands of modern society and the varying needs of young people. The award is now an international program recognized and used by organizations working with young people throughout the world.