Impact
Through YONA, youth in Northern Alberta’s priority neighbourhoods will experience extraordinary opportunities for social, emotional, academic, and musical development. They will develop lifelong values and skills that will promote the future success of these students and of their communities.
Through engagement with like-minded peers and role models in a safe learning environment, these students will be inspired to think beyond any limitations they may believe about what is achievable in school or in life. YONA will provide them with opportunities that they otherwise might not have. YONA has been in existence for long enough now that some students have remained in the program all the way through high school graduation. It is invigorating to witness their achievements over many years and to watch as they enter a new phase in their lives. A number of these former students choose to give back to the program, and they develop unique, inspiring relationships with current students.
