Not-For-Profit

We are the only AIDS Service Organization in York Region, Ontario. We are committed to providing the highest quality of programs and services to those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in York Region. We also provide education and prevention workshops that target many different communities such as youth, women, LGBTQ, aboriginal peoples and newcomers to Canada. The HIV Ambassador Program is a peer-driven leadership program for high school students across the region.

T4A Apparel started out as a simple idea and has now grown into something bigger.

T4A Apparel is a company whos goal is to create a realistic awareness of HIV/AIDS by using labors of love to create hand made tie dye shirts that will color the community with hope. All of the left over profits made from selling the t-shirts will be going with Tarin Arndt to Nairobi, Kenya in January to help youth, adults and families who have been affected and effected by HIV/AIDS. These profits will provide them education, toys, healthcare and basic necessities that we take for granted every single day.

The One Love Project is a program of Boston-based non-profit Next Step. The project helps young people living with HIV develop leadership, advocacy and life skills, in order to achieve good health, positive behavior, civic engagement and socioeconomic success.

One Love harnesses the power of music, theater, discussion forums and creative writing to help youth develop their voice and build life-long friendships.

Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay or in English come close to "Peers for Positive Living" was founded in the year 1999 by 18 Pag-asa Youth Association of the Philippines under the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Iloilo City Philippines. Working with communities of at-risk and vulnerable children and youth in highly exploitative environments and risk spaces, KGPP operates in 6 provinces and 10 highly urbanised cities/municipalities in Western Visayas and had reached 8,000 at-risk children and youth since 1999.

Our mission and vision are:

The Sense Project is all about youth peer education - young people getting involved with other young people to provide useful information and support about sexual issues.

Youth animators travel around Montréal to give in-class workshops to high school students aged 14-17 (Grade 9, 10, and 11 classes).

Sense is not your sex-ed class from high school. It’s sex-positive, not scary. It’s queer-friendly. And it’s animated by young people who are trained in safer sex, harm reduction, and social and cultural aspects of sexuality.

Ogitchidag Gikinooamaagad (means warrior teachers in the Ojibwe Language) is an art and culture based Peer Education Prevention Program for Native American adolescents. It teaches prevention and negotiation skills: increases knowledge about alcohol tobacco (and) other drugs, HIV, and other STDs; and builds self-esteem and positive cultural foundations among Native youth.

We are also a traveling Theater Program, we have multiple plays/skits that focus on health topics such as HIV.

Inspired and powered by youth, GO Campaign unites the energy of “piggy-bank philanthropists” and community organizers to help orphans and vulnerable children living in poverty secure a better future. GO Campaign partners with local grassroots organizations throughout the developing world to provide children with basic human needs such as shelter, food, education, medical care, vocational training, and income-generating activities.

Youth Educating About Health, Y.E.A.H., is Planned Parenthood Regina's youth group - a youth driven, peer education group.

Rural Child© “making dreams come true” concept are developed to create opportunities for youth in rural areas to advance through media and many other tools to communicate and help them to create their own opportunities as well expressing themselves through multimedia. The project will help them to build self-esteem, leadership, motivate, build character, learn to express there emotion and learn to speak out their issues and teach about behavior as well as attitude.

The Media Advocates for Prevention (MAP) program works with youth of color in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, to educate them about the risks associated with HIV. MAP trains youth aged 15–18, called Peer Advocates (PAs), in HIV prevention, leadership, and media production to create short media pieces to advocate for safer sex and HIV testing among their peers.