Projects

This project has a goal of engaging youth in understanding and addressing the issues that affect their health and wellbeing.

Start Date: 2017 Curriculum Links: Social Studies 10-11, Social Justice 12, Law 12, Human Geography 12 Project Funders: The Bogue Foundation The Income Inequality project seeks to engage and empower youth to better understand and work against poverty in Vancouver. This project supports youth in facilitating dialogues on poverty, income inequality and wealth distribution with their peers and becoming actively […]

Start Date: 2016 Curriculum Links: Social Studies 10-11, Social Justice 12, First Nations Studies 12, Law 12,  Project Funders: Coast Capital Savings, LUSH This project was established in response to an increasing youth-identified need for young people to connect to their own histories and experiences of migration in Canada. The Inclusion and Anti-Racism project seeks […]

Start Date: 2015 Curriculum Links: Home Economics 8-10, Science 8-10, Social Studies 11, Social Justice 12 Project Funders: Vancouver Foundation Greenest City Grants  Building Tools for a Greener Future engages Vancouver’s diverse youth community who has demonstrated an interest in the sustainable future of their city. Both the youth vital signs report and feedback from our […]

Start Date: 2015 Curriculum Links: Social Studies 11, Social Justice 12, Law 12 Project Funders: Vancouver Foundation YPC The Open House Series at Check Your Head are youth-created, youth-organized, and youth-led bi-monhtly community gatherings that take place at the CYH office. CYH youth volunteers place and lead evening gatherings on various social and environmental justice. […]

Start Date: 2015 Curriculum Links: Science 8-11, Social Studies 11, Social Justice 12, Law 12 Project Partners: Open Media Project Funders: Coast Capital Savings The Media and (You)th: Building Positive Communities Online project is a partnership between CYH and Open Media that aims to empower youth in the Lower Mainland with knowledge, skills, and resources […]

Start Date: 2014 Curriculum Links: Civic Studies 12, First Nations Studies 12, History 12, Home Economics 8-9, Science 8-11, Social Studies 8-11, Social Justice 12, Law 12 Project Funders: Vancouver Foundation Growing Check, Growing Change is a multiyear project to strengthen Check Your Head’s core programming and meet the increasing demand on our social and environmental justice […]

Start Date: 2014 Curriculum Links: Social Studies 10-11, Social Justice 12, First Nations Studies 12, Law 12,  Project Partners: No one is Illegal  In response to an increasing youth-identified need for young people to connect to their own histories and the history of indigenous communities in Canada, the Migrant Justice project seeks to engage and […]

Start Date: 2012 Curriculum Links: Science 8-11, Social Studies 11, Social Justice 12, Law 12 Project Partners: Canadian Council for Policy Alternatives Project Funders: Vancity Supported by recent research and publications from the Canadian Council for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Check Your Head has been engaging young people in schools and community centres to take more […]

Start Date: 2012 Project Partners: University of British Columbia, Child Health BC, Shared Care Committee, BC Children’s Hospital, BC College of Family Practice, Patient Voices Network, Emily Carr University of Art and Design Project Funders: Vancouver Foundation The ON TRAC initiative mandate is to ensure health care transition from pediatric to adult community care for […]

Start Date: 2012 Curriculum Links: Science 8-11, Social Studies 11, Social Justice 12, Law 12 Project Partners: Canadian Council for Policy Alternatives, GenWhy Media Project Funders: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Recent research and publications from the Canadian Council for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) highlight the importance of a more integrated and equitable […]

Date: Summer 2011 Project Partners: Environmental Youth Alliance, Pull Focus Films, Reel Youth Project Funders: Vancouver Foundation In July and August of 2011, Check Your Head partnered with the Environmental Youth Alliance, Pull Focus Films, and Reel Youth for the Sustain intensive. Ten youth participated in this innovative project bridging environmental education and media, devoting […]

Date: Summer 2011 Project Partners: Environmental Youth Alliance, Pull Focus Films, Reel Youth Project Funders: Vancouver Foundation In July and August of 2011, Check Your Head partnered with the Environmental Youth Alliance, Pull Focus Films, and Reel Youth for the Sustain intensive. Ten youth participated in this innovative project bridging environmental education and media, devoting […]

Start Date: 2011 Curriculum Links: Social Studies 8 – 11, Planning 10, Social Justice 12, Civics Project Funders: The Berger-Marks Foundation The goal of “Youth and the Labour Movement: Connecting Young People, Unions, and Social Justice” is to highlight the connections between the labour movement and social and environmental justice with an emphasis on women’s […]

Working together with Headlines Theatre, Check Your Head presented Corporate U, a theatre event that explored the influence of corporations on individual attitudes, relationships, economies, and the environment.

A project that engaged at-risk and street-involved youth to discuss the challenges that they face. Youth Speak Out! sought to address social injustices as defined by the people involved in the project.

In the Summer of 2007, Check Your Head hosted biweekly documentary film screenings for youth that were followed by open discussions of the key global issues related to the films.

The Step Up program was created in 2008 as a second step for students looking to get involved in social and environmental justice issues beyond the Check Your Head Workshops.

Bandwidth 4 Belonging provided Check Your Head with the opportunity to work with TakingITGlobal as well as a collaboration of eleven national disability organizations to implement a schedule of opportunities for young people with disabilities to design solutions to the critical social issue of isolation and loneliness.

Youth living in and around the Downtown Eastside were able to participate in a non-credit, university level course on media, art and identity – learning about things like video production, YouTube, media theory, Marshall McLuhan and more.

Get Your Vote On is a non-partisan voter engagement campaign by and for young folks that was started by Check Your Head.

You Too was a partnership between Check Your Head and the Global Stewardship program at Capilano College that aimed to raise awareness of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, build leadership and facilitation skills amongst youth and create connections between students and community organizations in the Lower Mainland.

Food security has become a key concept in the global movement resisting the industrialization of agriculture and growing inequities in the distribution of, and access to, food globally. To build a workshop around this concept, Check Your Head worked with the National Farmers’ Union Youth and the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network to launch the Dig In! project.

Working closely with the Vancouver School Board and elementary and secondary schools across Vancouver, the Sustainable Schools project gathered together young people and their allies in a spirit of hope and collaboration to take coordinated action on local environmental issues.

The Food Justice Project is an interactive, youth-driven and action focused initiative on the ethics of food production and consumption.

The Youth Engagement Strategy engages young people on the topic of health care in communities across BC.


The Youth and Gender Media Project educates youth about gender-based violence perpetuated in the media.