Youth Assisting Youth (YAY) is a volunteer-based peer mentoring program which individually matches mentors with similarly aged "at-risk" or vulnerable children and adolescents aged 6–15 years old. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the goal of the organization is "to provide a positive role model through a 'special friend' relationship." Youth Assisting Youth was founded in 1976 after a successful bid for funding from the Ministry of Correctional Services (Ontario). In 1991, Youth Assisting Youth became a member of the United Way of Greater Toronto.
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“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)