Founded in 1968, Youth Employment Services (YES) is the largest youth employment counselling centre in Canada, providing youth employment, job training, entrepreneurship, and empowerment programs. The charity focuses on serving young people with barriers to employment, such as homelessness, a lack of formal education, a criminal record, and drug abuse. YES believes that employment is empowerment and leads to safe and healthy communities. YES works to empower disadvantaged and vulnerable youth to become self-sufficient, contributing members of society.

Youth Employment Services provides young people with professional counselling and training. Its training techniques are used as a teaching model for other employment services across Canada and around the world. In F2019, YES reports that it helped 12,122 youth. Of the total youth, 62% were under the age of 24, 19% were new Canadians, 61% had at most a Grade 12 education, and 19% were out of work, school, or training for over a year. The charity worked with 1,653 employees to help youth secure work placements.

Youth Employment Services is a Medium-sized charity, receiving $1.4m in donations in F2019. The charity also received $14.8m in government funding. Administrative costs are 3% of revenues and fundraising costs are 7% of donations. For every dollar donated, 90 cents go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $7.5m can cover 6.1 months of annual program costs.

This charity report is an update that has been sent to Youth Employment Services for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.

Updated on August 13, 2020 by Tenzin Shomar.