Supporting Our Youth
Arts For Youth Award
Supporting Our Youth (SOY) is a dynamic volunteer program, based at Sherbourne Health Centre, that works within an anti-oppression framework to create opportunities for queer and trans youth and adults to build an inclusive, welcoming community together. The annual success of SOY’s photography and writing workshops, as well as their youth arts festival each year at Pride, prove that through artistic processes, young people who are all too often relegated to the margins of society are able to explore and expand their reality and engage with the world in ways that are creative, innovative and exciting.
Staff of Supporting Our Youth in 2009
Karine Silverwoman
Karine Silverwoman with youth from SOY’s Pink Ink programPhoto credit: Chelsey Lichtman
Watch SOY's 10th Anniversary Video:
TEN - Supporting Our Youth, 10th Anniversary video from Sherbourne Health on Vimeo.