Community Safety

Supporting vulnerable Black youth to build a sense of belonging through life skills programming.

Solid State Community Industries provides adult mentors to support marginalized and migrant Black youth. Youth agree to take part in the program before joining or creating co-operative enterprises.

“Co-operative enterprises” are businesses that groups of Black youth operate to learn valuable life skills and expand positive peer groups. They provide education to the community and may even generate income.

Black Youth Enterprise activities are expected to increase resiliency and strengthen client connection with positive peers and the community.

Location

Supports Black youth throughout Surrey but operates primarily within City Centre.

Contact

info@solidstate.coop

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Supporting vulnerable youth with one-on-one mentorship and counselling.

The Surrey School District provides a youth counsellor to meet with 13 to 19-year-olds in schools and the community. Youth agree to participate in the program before receiving individualized support including setting goals and developing actions to meet them.   

Activities include connecting youth to recreational, volunteer, and employment opportunities, assisting youth to leave negative relationships, reducing barriers such as transportation that affect school and appointment attendance, and referring youth to additional services.

Blueprint Pathways activities are expected to increase resiliency and strengthen client connection with school, family, and community.

Contact

safe-office@surreyschools.ca

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Coordinating prevention and intervention services to support vulnerable children, youth, and families.

Surrey School District provides two workers to support staff from over 130 schools to identify students aged 6 to 19 who need multiple community services. These staff attend the weekly Children and Youth At-Risk Table (CHART) meetings where they work with professionals from other agencies to develop individualized support plans for each young person. Outside of the CHART meetings, staff make sure that services are being delivered to each child, youth, and family.

CHART School Response activities are expected to increase resiliency and strengthen connection with school, family, and community.

Location

Support provided on school sites and in the community during and outside of school hours.

Contact

safe-chart@surreyschools.ca

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Supporting vulnerable South Asian female youth and their caregivers with education and counselling.

Pacific Community Resources Society provides two dedicated staff who offer one-on-one counselling, outreach, and group education for South Asian female youth aged 12 to 18 and their caregivers. Participation in the program is voluntary, with clients providing consent before receiving support.

The program includes biweekly group sessions for both youth and caregivers, focusing on resiliency-based topics such as strengthening caregiver-youth relationships, overcoming cultural barriers, fostering open communication, and offering mutual peer and adult support during challenging times. Culturally responsive in its approach, the program ensures clients cultural needs are met and values are respected and integrated. 

Through Club Utopia activities, the program aims to build confidence, increase resilience, and strengthen family relationships.

Contact

604-587-8100
ccyh@pcrs.ca

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Supporting vulnerable youth with life skills support and access to trauma counselling.

Dan’s Legacy Foundation provides a dedicated social worker that meets youth aged 15 to 24 in the community. Priority is given to Indigenous youth and those approaching adulthood. Youth must consent to participate in the program before receiving support.

The social worker helps youth access a range of essential supports, including financial assistance, medical care, housing, and other community resources. Participants can also connected to other Dan’s Legacy programs, such as therapeutic counselling and life skills development, to help them build a strong foundation for adulthood.

Focus program activities are designed to increase resilience and strengthen each youth’s connection to family, culture, and community.

Location

Delivered in the community across multiple Surrey locations.

Contact

help@danslegacy.com

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Supporting 14- to 17-year-olds with individualized services and group activities.

Pacific Community Resources Society provides one coordinator and two youth workers to support Surrey youth with one-on-one mentorship and community-based group activities.

Program staff provide individualized support and lead structured activities such as resiliency group meetings, community service, and adventure-based recreation. Youth participants are expected to strengthen resiliency to life’s challenges, expand relationships with positive peers, and increase their sense of social responsibility and community connection.

Location

The program will operate out of the City Centre Youth Hub with one-on-one services offered throughout Surrey and group-based activities across the lower mainland after school and on the weekends.

Contact

604-587-8100

ccyh@pcrs.ca
 

Supporting 13- to 19-year-olds to appropriately address conflict with their parents.

Family Services of Greater Vancouver provides one professional mediator to address conflict between Surrey parents and their teenage children.

Mediation does not delve into deep sources of conflict like counselling. It focuses on the need for an immediate de-escalation of conflict to restore safety and stability within the family in a relatively short period of time. Families are expected to develop shared understanding and strengthened relationships while also improving their communication and conflict management skills more generally.

Location

Services are provided weekdays with flexible hours at Family Services of Greater Vancouver’s Guildford office, in the community, as well as through virtual appointments.

Contact

604-525-9144

skurji@fsgv.ca

Support community safety in Surrey by registering your external security camera with Project IRIS and help provide potential evidence if an incident occurs in your area.

Project IRIS (Integrated Resources for Investigations and Safety) is the City’s closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera registry. Project IRIS is a database that lists the location of external security cameras owned by residents and businesses in Surrey to help police solve crimes and aid in important investigations.

If you have a security camera outside of your home or business, you can register your camera. 

• Registration is voluntary and easy.
• All information is confidential and secure.
• You can withdraw from the program at any time.

“It’s a great way for neighbours to help neighbours. An incident could occur in the neighbourhood, and a collection of footage could help solve the incident”. – Chasen, Surrey resident

Find out more about Project IRIS.

Supporting vulnerable children and youth with culturally-sensitive mentorship and counselling.

Options Community Services provides a youth worker and clinical counsellor to support at-risk children and youth aged 6 to 19, and their families. Participation is voluntary, with youth and caregivers providing consent before receiving support.

The youth worker work closely with clients to identify personal needs, set meaningful goals, and develop strategies to achieve them. They meet their clients in community settings, helping them engage in recreational activities, learn important life skills, and support them to leave negative relationships. The clinical counsellor offers therapeutic support to both clients and their families, helping them navigate personal challenges and strengthen family connections.

Risk Prevention Team activities are designed help children and youth build resilience and foster stronger ties to family, culture, and community.

Location

Operates primarily within Surrey’s Newton and Guildford town centres.

Contact

(604) 596-4321
youthservices.intake@options.bc.ca

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Supporting 6- to 17-year-olds and their parents with culturally sensitive clinical counselling.

DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society provides one clinical counsellor and one facilitator to support Surrey youth and parents.

Youth participate in a three-phased counselling approach that begins with weekly one-on-one sessions for approximately four weeks. Parent(s) are then integrated into youth-led family counselling sessions before youth resume a final series of one-on-one sessions. Full program involvement typically concludes after 16 counselling sessions offered over a four-month period. Participants are supported to set and reach personal goals such as improving family connection, mental well-being, and resiliency to life’s challenges.

Location

Services are supported Monday to Friday at DIVERSEcity, school, and/or virtual appointments.

Contact

604-547-1202

counsellingservices@dcrs.ca 

Supporting 6- to 24-year-old youth and their parents with individualized mentorship and clinical counselling.

Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver provides one clinical counsellor and two youth outreach workers to support Surrey youth and parents.

Supporting Hope through Intervention, Navigation and Empowerment (“SHINE”) provides community-based one-on-one mentorship and clinical counselling services for youth aged 6 to 18 and women aged 19 to 24. Parents may also access counselling services. Program participants are expected to experience increased mental and physical well-being and strengthened resiliency to life’s challenges.

Location

Program operates out of Elizabeth Fry Society’s Whalley town centre office with services provided weekdays throughout Surrey.

Contact

604-580-2933

admin@elizabethfry.com

Supporting Indigenous children and youth with cultural activities and spiritual learning.

The Surrey Urban Indigenous Leadership Committee (SUILC) and Surrey School District provide cultural activities for Indigenous students in grades six to nine. Children and youth agree to program involvement before participating in monthly day trips that take place inside and outside of Surrey during the school year. Community cultural events targeting Indigenous families are also supported during and outside of the school year.

Skookum Windspeaker activities are expected to increase resiliency and strengthen cultural identity and community connection.

Location

In the community during and outside of school hours.

Contact

kalenuik_d@surreyschools.ca 

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Supporting 9- to 24-year-old youth and their parents with one-on-one mentorship and guidance.

Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society provides two outreach counsellors to support Surrey youth and parents.

Participants engage in primarily after-school activities with individualized case management designed to achieve academic, social, and emotional goals. Program staff support participants with pursuing volunteer, employment, and recreational opportunities while promoting healthy decision making, positive peer relationships, and family strengthening.

Location

Services are provided in person throughout Surrey with flexible hours.

Contact

604-596-7722 ext. 160

Familysupportprogram@pics.bc.ca

Supporting 13- to 24-year-old female youth and their parents with trauma-informed support.

Surrey Women's Centre provides one gender-based violence counsellor and one mobile outreach worker to support female survivors and their family members.

The Seen Project involves community-based interventions that empower youth survivors of gender-based violence and emphasize strategies to support healing. Primary activities include support groups, mobile outreach, hospital accompaniments, and education to prevent and address the experience of physical, sexual, and emotional violence.

Location

Services are provided in Surrey Women’s Centre’s physical office located in the Whalley town centre as well as throughout the Surrey community including after-hours mobile outreach.

Contact

604-589-1868

Supporting vulnerable middle years aged children with after school mentorship and recreation.

Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative provides after school programming for middle years aged children at five Surrey School District sites. Schools are selected based on increased vulnerability. Program staff work with school staff to identify children who are willing to participate and could benefit the most.

Each week, adult mentors lead recreational and mentorship activities that build trust, self-confidence, and positive friendships.

Yo4Youth activities are expected to increase resiliency, self-confidence and sense of belonging for each participant.

Location

Select Surrey schools.

Contact

info@ybyg.ca

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The City’s oversight of CHART is guided by a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) which requires that: 

• each partner organization signs a Common or Integrated Program Agreement (CIPA); 

• each partner organization staff representative signs a Non-Disclosure Agreement; 

• the same structured process is consistently applied at each CHART meeting; and 

• only de-identified information is recorded and shared. 

Over 70% of referrals accepted to CHART are consensual. Personal information of non-consenting individuals can be shared if table partners agree that ‘acutely elevated risk’ exists and there is a likelihood for harm if no intervention occurs. 

1. Chair conducts attendance and determines referrals to be discussed. 

2. Chair directs discussion of referrals:

• New non-consent referrals: Referring partner shares young person’s age, gender, and risk factors. Table determines if acutely elevated risk (AER) is present. If no, referral is rejected. If yes, referral is assigned a case number and identity of young person is shared. 
• New consent referrals: Referring partner shares young person’s name, age, gender, and risk factors. Table determines need for multi-agency support. If services of two or more agencies are required, referral is assigned a case number. 

3. One lead agency and one or more supporting agencies are assigned to provide services to the young person and their family if applicable. 

For each accepted referral, de-identified information such as age, gender, neighbourhood, and up to 100 risk factors is tracked and rolled up in the CHART Dashboard.

View the dashboard.

• Alex House
• City of Surrey
• Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU-BC)
• Dan's Legacy Foundation
• DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society
• Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
• Family Services of Greater Vancouver
• First Nations Health Authority
• Fraser Health
• Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association (FRAFCA)
• Ministry of Children and Family Development
• Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction
• Options Community Services Society
• Pacific Community Resources Society (PCRS)
• Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS)
• Solid State Community Industries
• Sources Community Resource Centres
• Surrey Police Service
• Surrey School District
• Surrey Women’s Centre
• Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative

The City’s oversight of SMART is guided by its Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) which requires that: 

• each partner organization signs a Common or Integrated Program Agreement (CIPA); 

• each partner organization staff representative signs a Non-Disclosure Agreement; 

• the same structured process is consistently applied at each SMART meeting; and 

• only de-identified information is recorded and shared. 

Personal information of non-consenting individuals can be shared if table partners agree that ‘acutely elevated risk’ exists and there is a likelihood for harm if no intervention occurs. 

1. Chair conducts attendance and determines referrals to be discussed. 

2. Chair directs discussion of referrals. 

• New non-consent referrals: Referring partner shares person’s age, gender, and risk factors. Table determines if acutely elevated risk (AER) is present. If no, referral is rejected. If yes, referral is assigned a case number and identity of person is shared. 
• New consent referrals: Referring partner shares person’s name, age, gender, and risk factors. Table determines need for multi-agency support. If services of two or more agencies are required, referral is assigned a case number. 

3. One lead agency and one or more supporting agencies are assigned to provide services. 

For each accepted referral, de-identified information such as age, gender, neighbourhood, and up to 105 risk factors is tracked and rolled up in the dashboard.

View the dashboard.

• City of Surrey
• Atira Women's Resource Society
• BC Corrections – Adult Probation
• BC Corrections – Surrey Pretrial Services Centre
• Community Living BC
• Connective Support Society
• DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society
• Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
• First Nations Health Authority
• Fraser Health
• Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association (FRAFCA)
• Lookout Housing and Health Society
• Milieu Family Services
• Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)
• Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction
• MPA Society
• Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of British Columbia
• Options Community Services Society
• Pacific Community Resources Society (PCRS)
• PHSA Community Transition Teams
• Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS)
• Sources Community Resource Centres
• Surrey Police Service
• Surrey School District
• Surrey Urban Mission Society (SUMS)
• Surrey Women's Centre