About Us

Who We Are, What We Do

The Valley Youth Project (VYP) is an Annapolis Valley-based non-profit organization run by local adult volunteers, who are all members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.  We facilitate twice-monthly drop-ins, with time for discussion and activities.  We also provide workshops for youth and adults.

Organizing Model

We hold organizing meetings regularly, where we make decisions by consensus.  We reply to emails within no more than a week.  If your message is something that we need to discuss at a meeting, we will let you know we’ve received it; be aware that our decision may have to wait until after the next organizing meeting.

The Halifax-based Nova Scotia Youth Project is our parent organization; they provide logistical support, for example by handling our donations and invoices, and we operate under their policies.  However, we do our own fundraising.  As a small satellite operation, we have no paid staff and an official budget of $0.

Donations and workshop fees allow us to pay for snacks and transportation for drop-in, cover gas for workshop facilitators, and organize trips to Halifax, for example for Queer Prom or to see the Pride Parade.

History and Purpose

The Valley Youth Project was founded in 2009 as a satellite of the Nova Scotia Youth Project. The purpose of the VYP is to provide a safe and supportive space for 2SLGBTQI+ youth and their allies to meet, share, and foster a community. The Halifax office, which has been operating since 1993, provides a safe, supportive, youth-directed environment where youth from across Nova Scotia can have access to information, peers, support, and social activities.  They also provide services and referrals to youth across the province.

Like the Nova Scotia Youth Project, our goal is to make Nova Scotia a safer, healthier, and happier place for young people of all orientations and identities.