YIBC is first and foremost an on-line crisis chat service, where you can chat 1-on-1 with a trained volunteer from the Vancouver Crisis Centre, where our service is based. 

We also have this site, with information so you can learn more on a variety of youth-related issues, as well as a resources: a list oforganizations and websites where you can get help.  You can also get support via email by writing to us at youthinbc@crisiscentre.bc.ca.

Youth Week is an international celebration of youth held annually during the first week of May. It is a week of fun, interaction and celebration intending to build a strong connection between young people and their communities and to profile the issues, accomplishments and diversity of youth across the province.

Wherever Youth Week is celebrated, the idea behind it is the same: Young people are important and need to be recognized in a constructive and positive manner. Their contributions need to be acknowledged and celebrated.

During Youth Week, young people around the world organize and participate in many activities including sporting events, musical performances, art displays, movie nights, random acts of kindness, award ceremonies, community projects displays on education and employment services and much more!  Read the history of Youth Week.

The Albertans formed in Vancouver, defects from Alberta, Saskatchewan, the U.S.  They met as a collective, and piled into a propane-fueled, converted short bus to tour down to San Diego and back.  They toured this way for the next 2 years. Unglamorously, crossing the continent to record in New York, playing shows with bands they didn't know, for people that didn't know them.  They traveled 50,000 miles, hopped borders, broke down, slept on the road.  They collected fans through their wanderings, played festivals, left the homes they never had, and toured until their tired bus died on the wake of a road outside Duluth, Minnesota.
That was summer '08 to summer '10.  It's a new year now, or at least a Jewish new year.  The Albertans have their second record to put out, which is being released on Ernest Jenning Records, and is called "New Age."The record was engineered by Morgan Whirledge of "Amazing Baby," and mixed by Malachi DeLorenzo of "Langhorne Slim."  The band will, of course, take to the road again in February of 2011, before "New Age" is released in March.  In the meantime, the band has taken up temporary asylum in Vancouver and will beplaying local shows.