Ten Yukon community projects funded by the Crime Prevention and Victim Services Trust through fall 2025 intake

Press Release

February 11, 2026

Ten community-led projects focused on crime prevention and services for victims of crime received $317,462 during the fall 2025 intake through funding from the Crime Prevention and Victim Services Trust.

The projects funded through the fall 2025 intake focus on:

• creating community connections and support through:
  • providing regular outreach services;
  • offering group programs for women exiting harmful relationships; and
  • making public spaces safer and increasing awareness of safety programs.
• sharing information, hosting workshops and engaging communities about:
  • overt and systemic racism;
  • sexual health education for adults with fetal alcohol syndrome disorder or prenatal alcohol exposure; and
  • stigma surrounding individuals with lived experience in trading sex and sexual services.
• supporting Yukon youth by:
  • providing safety seminars;
  • running land-based leadership programs and camps focusing on substance use prevention and mental health; and
  • using sport as a motivational tool to promote attendance, increase classroom engagement and promote healthy habits for life.

The next application deadline is 11:59 pm on February 16, 2026. Guidance on applying for funding is available at Yukon.ca.

The Crime Prevention and Victim Services Trust is an important tool to support community wellbeing and safety. By supporting these groups, their projects contribute to crime prevention, services for victims, community connections and support Yukon youth. We are grateful for every organization that comes forward to lead these important initiatives across the Yukon.

Minister of Justice Laura Lang

Backgrounder

Crime Prevention and Victim Services Trust fall 2025 recipients

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Yukon was awarded $7,500 for the BBBSY Safety & Awareness Seminars. The organization will host five safety-focused seminars for youth:

• Internet Safety & Responsible Digital Behaviour;
• General Safety & Conflict Resolution;
• Understanding Gang Activity & Violence Prevention;
• Recognizing and Reporting Abuse & Assault; and
• Building a Safe and Supportive Community.

Boys and Girls Club was awarded $53,020 for the project River Trip to Moosehide. The project is a year-long, land-based leadership program for 20 Yukon youth that weaves together paddling skills, leadership development, cultural learning and substance use prevention. The leadership program will end with a two-week canoe expedition from Whitehorse to the Moosehide Gathering.

The Yukon division of the Canadian Mental Health Association was awarded $28,137 for its project After the Storm: reflecting, healing and moving forward after relationship challenges. They will develop and host two free group programs for women who are processing the aftermath of destabilizing or emotionally harmful relationships. By the end of this project, the recipient will have developed a high-quality program that they will offer annually.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society of Yukon was awarded $49,000 for the project FASD/PAE Sexual Health Educator, which aims to address a critical gap in sexual health education while working with adults living with disabilities. They have designed a series of trauma-informed workshops with FASD-specific accommodations in place for participants with lived experience, their caregivers and service providers.

First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun was awarded $30,000 for its Building Belonging: Community Safety & Beautification project. The goal is to make public spaces feel safer, culturally rooted, visibly cared for and increase awareness of their new Community Safety Guardian program.

Japanese Canadian Association of Yukon was awarded $4,113 for its project Unpacking Racism and Shaping Identity of Japanese/Japanese-Canadian, where they will build on their 2023 Anti-Racism workshops. This second series of workshops will focus on how racism, both overt and systemic. affects the mental health of Japanese individuals and the long-term wellbeing of their children.

Selkirk First Nation was awarded $26,381 for the Selkirk First Nation Youth Empowerment Camp project, a fun three-day on the land camp for male youth which will focus on improving mental health and learning traditional and cultural values. Activities will be led by an experienced counsellor who is a registered psychiatric nurse.

Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Government was awarded $10,751 for its project Breadcrumbs, a year-long pilot project that supports an outreach worker to connect with Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Citizens with no permanent residence, dealing with mental health issues and/or working to support their habits by any means necessary. The outreach worker will travel to Whitehorse monthly to assist with building a pathway to healing by providing support, working on possible reintroduction to family and friends and planning a potential return to their Traditional Territory.

The Village of Teslin was awarded $38,560 for the First Assist Multi Year Community Hockey Program, which continues to build on the success of the previous project, First Assist Community Program. Working alongside the Town of Watson Lake, the project co-delivers the second phase of an inter-community project that will help another Yukon community experience the benefits from First Assist, a program that aims to help Indigenous students – especially those hardest to reach – find success in school by using sport as a motivational tool to promote attendance.

Yukon Status of Women Council was awarded $70,000 for its project Supporting Sex Workers Autonomy Project – Yukon. The initiative is aimed at expanding community programs supporting the safety and wellbeing of Yukon sex workers through harm reduction, education and peer-led approaches. This includes continuing Sex Work 101 and 201 training to reduce stigma, launching a Yukon-specific Bad Date Report for safety and growing the What’s Up Hustlers newsletter to connect and inform isolated individuals with lived experience in trading sex and sexual services in the Yukon.

Media contact

Tim Kucharuk
Press Secretary, Cabinet Communications
867-335-2419
tim.kucharuk@yukon.ca

Francis Lefebvre
Communications, Justice
867-667-8144
jus.comms@yukon.ca

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