Rainbow Youth Centre Legacy Fund
The Rainbow Youth Centre Legacy Fund will help support trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs that uplift youth through healing, leadership, and opportunity—ensuring a lasting impact for future generations.
The Rainbow Youth Centre Legacy Fund will help support trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs that uplift youth through healing, leadership, and opportunity—ensuring a lasting impact for future generations.
For Over 40 Years—A Place That Youth Can Feel Valued, Welcome, Seen, and Heard
Rainbow Youth Centre (RYC) has been a place for hope, healing, and empowerment for youth and families in Regina and surrounding areas for over four decades. Grounded in the values of respect, equity, and inclusion, Rainbow is more than a service provider—it is a trusted community anchor, offering culturally responsive and trauma-informed programming that uplifts young people and their families.
Every day, Rainbow walks alongside Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth—many of whom face complex barriers due to poverty, systemic racism, colonial legacies, and intergenerational trauma. We are here to listen, nurture, and journey with them as they rediscover their strength, reclaim their stories, and rewrite their futures.
Rainbow Youth Centre plays a vital role in addressing systemic inequities affecting Indigenous and marginalized youth. Each year, RYC connects with hundreds of young people through wraparound supports that reduces homelessness, increase educational attainment, improve mental health, and strengthen family and cultural bonds. Through long-standing community trust, RYC has become a trusted hub where youth feel seen, heard, and valued. Our legacy is written in every life empowered to break cycles of trauma and reclaim their future.
Programs at a Glance
Rainbow Youth Centre delivers six interconnected streams of support, creating a full circle of care for youth ages 11 to 29 and young families.
A drop-in and relationship-based program that offers:
- One-on-one mentoring, goal setting, and crisis support
- Recreation and leadership-building activities
- After-school meals and evening programming (Tues–Fri)
- A safe space to connect, grow, and just be a kid
A powerful wraparound support for young parents:
- Prenatal and postnatal care rooted in cultural teachings
- Life skills, parenting classes, and early childhood development
- Access to food, diapers, clothing, transportation
- Circle with Elders, traditional parenting, and peer connection
Helping young adults build purpose and economic stability:
- Support to complete high school (CAEC) and gain driver’s licenses
- Job readiness, workplace confidence, and trades exposure
- Real-world skill-building through alternative education
Meeting mental wellness and justice-involved youth where they are:
- Land-based healing, art therapy, and substance use support
- Harm reduction, peer mentoring, and conflict resolution
- “Resolve Conflict Without Violence” program for court-mandated youth
Home visiting and early intervention program for families with little ones:
- Child development, parent-child bonding, and parenting tools
- Housing and food security support
- Referrals to childcare, health, and community services
- Operates in partnership with KidsFirst Regina
Supporting youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness:
- Referrals through Coordinated Access
- Advocacy, navigation, and long-term housing stabilization
- Wraparound mental health and cultural supports (up to 18 months)
- Focused on dignity, connection, and sustainable futures
Community Impact
Rainbow Youth Centre plays a vital role in addressing systemic inequities and supporting youth and families through moments of crisis and transition. Each year, RYC connects with hundreds of young people—many of them Indigenous—through trauma-informed and culturally grounded programs.
The impact is measurable through:
- Reduced youth homelessness and housing instability
- Improved educational attainment and employment readiness
- Stronger mental health and personal resilience
- Increased cultural identity and intergenerational healing
Through decades of trust and community-led action, Rainbow has become a sanctuary where youth are not only supported—but seen, heard, and believed in.
Our legacy is found in every empowered story, every healed relationship, every youth who chooses to walk a different path.
Purpose of Funding: Rainbow Legacy Fund
Your support today ensures tomorrow’s youth continue to have the opportunities they deserve.
The Rainbow Youth Centre Legacy Fund is a long-term investment in our vision of community transformation. Your contribution will:
Sustain core programming that meets the evolving needs of youth
Expand land-based healing and cultural reclamation work
Support youth-led initiatives and leadership development
Strengthen our ability to provide wraparound supports beyond short-term funding cycles
This is more than a donation. It is a legacy.
Join Us in Building a Brighter Future
Rainbow Youth Centre stands as a reminder that when young people are given space, love, and guidance, they rise. They lead. They create change.
By contributing to the Rainbow Youth Centre Legacy Fund, donors help ensure that future generations of youth continue to have access to safe spaces, cultural connection, and opportunities for transformation. Your legacy gift will support core programming, land-based healing initiatives, and the creation of sustainable systems that respond to youth voice, leadership, and well-being. Together, we can create an enduring impact—where every young person, regardless of circumstance, has the chance to thrive.
We invite you to walk alongside us. Together, we can create a future where every young person—regardless of circumstance—has the chance to thrive.
Rainbow helped me believe in myself. They didn’t give up on me—even when I gave up on myself.