Funded Projects

HELP Program - Canadian Red Cross
Medical Equipment Purchase for Yukon Office of the Canadian Red Cross
Purchase of wheeled walkers, adult two-wheeled walkers, junior two-wheeled walkers and wheelchairs will elevating leg rests, all of which are available for use in all Yukon communities where required.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society Yukon
Inclusive Community Lunch Program & Out and About Program
Whitehorse
Inclusive Community Lunch Program provides for hot lunches for up to ten people daily. The Out and About Program provides support to attend activities and if needed, programming for evenings and weekends. Our goal is to improve quality of life and promote mental wellness through inclusion, engagement and education.
Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre
Community Kitchen and Support for New Moms
Whitehorse
United Way Yukon funding is supporting the community kitchen, a low barrier weekend evening drop in program for women to eat and support one another. Funds from United Way Yukon are also supporting the Centre's Parent Child Mother Goose and Mothering your Baby 1st Year programs for new moms.
FEATURED PROJECT
United Way Yukon provided funding to support First Nations Yukon youth working to end Lateral Violence
In 2015-2016, United Way Yukon helped fun a project involving several youth from the Kwanlin Dün First Nation.
The group of youth worked with project staff to develop a Lateral Violence Workshop which they delivered in their community and other communities in Yukon. Some of the youth have continued delivering a version of the workshop on their own.
The videos below were made by videographer Gyde Shepherd in collaboration with the youth participating in the project. Each of the youth received an iPad and learned how to use it to do interviews and edit short videos.
The first video features some of the youth, along with project staff and Kwanlin Dün First Nation Chief Doris Bill. The youth used the second and third videos when they delivered the workshops to educate and engage participants. These videos are good resources for anyone wishing to learn about lateral violence and/or develop a lateral violence workshop in their community.