About Us

Our Mission

Partners for Youth is a not-for-profit organization built on a community partnership model that assists youth to learn, grow, develop positive self-esteem and gain the skills to make positive life choices. This is accomplished primarily through adventure-based programming, offered in a safe, supportive, and fun environment. We work with youth who are: not able to join other organized groups; having trouble finding a social group; having difficulty with relationships; having difficulty with participation and commitment; subject to peer pressure; unable to assume responsibility for their actions, and who may have varied risk factors in their lives.

Our Staff

CEO

John Sharpe

Project Coordinators

Richard Woollin, Dawn Payne, Joanne Minor, Mathieu Cormier

Andrew Cuthbertson, Suzanne Laver, Simone Leibovitch

Our Board of Directors

Founder and Chairman Emeritus

Hon. Jim Ross

President

Teresa Hatto

Vice President

Ross Creelman

Past President

Ric Cuthbertson

Treasurer

Larry Johnston

Directors

Mike Joyce, Louise Beland, Andy Scott, Sue Calhoun, Jim Quigley

Sue Rickards, Robert Smith, Gloria Murphy, Robert Minor, Jody Gorham

Honourary Patron

Hon. David Alward

Honourary Directors

Hon. John Wallace, Hon. Percy Mockler, Hon. Michael Meighen, Hon. Marilyn Trenholm-Counsell

Hon. Noel Kinsella, Hon. Trevor Eyton, Warren McKenzie, William Stanley