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The Youth Services Bureau (YSB) provides life-changing programs and services to youth aged 12 and older and their families, in the areas of mental health counselling, shelter and housing, support for employment and legal services. YSB staff support over 3,000 young people every month, no matter where they live, what they look like or who they love.
With the support of our community, we have helped change the lives of tens of thousands of young people so that they can lead independent, healthy and stable lives.
Throughout COVID-19, YSB remains an essential service for Ottawa youth and families.
In one look :
Year of foundation: 1960
Total turnover for the last financial year: $32,069,943
Twitter: @ysb_bsj
Facebook: @ysb.bsj
Instagram: ysb.bsj
LinkedIn: /ottawa-youth-services-bureau/about/
Main sources of funding:
- Government funding: 91%
- Individual donations: 3%
- Corporate donations: 3%
- Other charities: 1%
- Other sources: 2%
Geographical region targeted: Ottawa
How you can help
To give
To meet fundraising needs – particularly in the areas of mental health, shelter and housing, and employment – the YSB Foundation raises funds throughout the year through grants, digital fundraising campaigns, direct mail and email campaigns, as well as through partnership and sponsorship opportunities. The Foundation is honored to work with its corporate and foundation partners, sponsors, individual donors, as well as community and youth groups to ensure young people have access to our programs and services.
Stand Up Ottawa: YSB welcomes workplace, family and community teams to its annual Stay Up Ottawa event (formerly known as YSB SleepOUT for Youth). Fully bilingual and complete with an exciting online evening program, this year’s virtual event takes place on November 26. Bringing together work crews, families, community leaders and YSB staff, participants pledge to spend a night sleeping in their backyards or on their patios, while raising funds to support the two shelters and the four YSB apartment buildings for youth who were previously homeless. This year is the 9th annual event, which has raised over $1.5 million since its inception. In addition to support from sponsors as well as corporate and family teams, a large portion of the funds raised each year come from local youth, who step up to support their peers in need in our community.
Events and fundraising
To meet fundraising needs – particularly in the areas of mental health, shelter and housing, and employment – the YSB Foundation raises funds throughout the year through grants, digital fundraising campaigns, direct mail and email campaigns, as well as through partnership and sponsorship opportunities. The Foundation is honored to work with its corporate and foundation partners, sponsors, individual donors, as well as community and youth groups to ensure young people have access to our programs and services.
Board members and executives
Patti Murphy
Executive Director, YSB Charitable Foundation
Isabelle Perreault
Chair
President & Founder, Differly
Kerry Patterson Baker
Forest Products Association of Canada
Rebecca Murray
Carleton University
Scott Lawrence
HealthCraft Products Inc.
Martin Samson
Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs
Christophe Rheaume
Ottawa Police Service
Dr Neda Amani
Amani Health
Chris White
Canadian Meat Council
Maria McRae
Community advocate, lawyer
Kelly Youngdale
Label Innovation Inc.
Balwinderjit Singh Kapoor
MDS Aero Support Corporation
Justin Veale
Forest Products Association of Canada
Erika Falconer
RBC
Shawn Hamilton
Canderel Group
Christine Leadman
Bank Street BIA
Kate Dalgeis
Wind rose group
Jennifer Stuart
Strategic Syntax
Funding priorities
The YSB Foundation’s fundraising priorities focus on two major challenges for young people in our community: mental wellness and affordable housing. YSB is the lead agency for youth mental health in the Ottawa region and provides services to youth with mental health issues as well as support for their families. We’re raising much-needed funds to ensure young people can access our virtual, walk-in youth mental health clinic, 24/7 crisis phone line and online chat service. 24-hour crisis cases, our short-term mental health centre, our mobile crisis team, as well as our two dedicated youth shelters and four apartment buildings, and the Center d’accueil pour jeunes du downtown.
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