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Express
Make room for emotions that do not always fit into words.
Youth-led • Art-powered • Worldwide
Art can say what words cannot.
We create spaces where young people can heal, connect, and be heard through art.
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CREATE TO CONNECT✿MAKE SPACE FOR FEELING✦HEAL IN COMMUNITY✿
Welcome to HYA
Creativity, connection & care.
We turn art into a place where young people can feel understood, build community, and create meaningful change.
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Connect
Create honest, welcoming spaces with people who understand.
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Care
Turn imagination into service, advocacy, and real support.
The impact board
Look what we’ve made together!
dollars raised
volunteer hours
youth volunteers
community events
people in our online community
growing chapter communities
Every number represents a real person, project, or moment of belonging.
Fresh from HYA
Latest from our world.
New creative work, community moments, and ways young people are turning care into action.
✿Latest content
Blind, Deaf & Mute Baking Challenge
A youth-led creative challenge using teamwork, humour, and empathy to bake for people experiencing homelessness.
Open content✦Latest event
Creativity for BC Children’s Hospital
Our community came together through creative fundraising to support children and families receiving care.
What we make
Projects with heart.
Art workshops, healing stories, and youth-led community action.
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MAKEHealing through making
Creative workshops that give children, youth, and seniors a gentle place to express, connect, and feel seen.
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SHAREStories that stay with you
Youth-made comics, illustrations, and conversations that make mental wellbeing feel human and approachable.
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CARECreativity in action
Community campaigns and fundraisers that turn small acts of imagination into tangible support.
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The HYA Podcast
Honest conversations about creativity, growing up, and the feelings young people do not always say out loud.
Local roots, wider reach
Find your people.
Start something good.
HYA chapters give young leaders a toolkit, a creative community, and the freedom to build projects that matter where they live.
Start a chapterOUR CHAPTERS
01Point GreyVancouver, Canada
02SentinelWest Vancouver, Canada
03Elgin ParkSurrey, Canada
04DeltaDelta, Canada
View all chapters The heart behind HYA
Made by young people,
for young people.
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Jennie Cho
Executive Director & Founder
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Rachel Lum
COO & Vice President
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Kieron Bhatt
Treasurer
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There’s room for you here
Bring what only you can.
Join as an artist, storyteller, organizer, chapter leader, or someone who simply wants to help.