International Youth Forum (IYF) 2025
Join Us at the 2025 International Youth Forum (IYF)
Hosted by the BC Children and Youth Connection Society
An annual online global event, collaboratively organized by passionate young leaders from Canada and the United States. The forum is dedicated to exploring solutions to the most significant youth-related challenges worldwide through creativity, sharing, collaboration, and dialogue with peers from around the world. It offers a global stage for youth to speak up, inspire others, act with purpose, and spark meaningful change.
2025 Theme: Mental Health
This year, we will focus on youth mental health, a critical and timely issue affecting young people worldwide.
Through meaningful discussions and creative expression, participants will engage with peers and experts to share and explore effective strategies as well as challenges related to youth mental health in their countries, regions, and schools. Together, they will learn from one another, offer mutual support, and build collective momentum to create a positive and lasting impact on the global future of youth mental well-being.
Event Details
- Dates: August 26–28, 2025
- Time: 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST
- Location: Online (via Zoom)
Be part of the solution. Sign up today and lend your voice to this important global conversation.
What happens at the International Youth Forum?
1) Discussion and Present
- Present what life is like in your region/country with this global issue through a format you prefer (PowerPoint, drama skit, etc)
2) Present and Brainstorm
- Based on our discussion, what can we do as an international team to support? How can we use insights from different backgrounds and cultures to develop more effective solutions?
3) Collaborate
- Draft a plan to bring the initiative to the local area. Branch out each other’s non-profits/campaigns/clubs/fundraisers/workshops etc in different countries and locations
Why the International Youth Forum?
Perspectives and advice from professionals in the psychology and neuroscience field are tailored to your interests.
- Viewing a challenge from multiple perspectives leads to better insight.
- Allows teens to enhance their communication skills with people from different backgrounds.
- International non-profit/club/individual connections: help branch out each other’s non-profits or individual clubs, etc.
- Show that youth can change the world too. We don’t have to be 18+ to support a cause we care about.
- Develop insightful and impactful solutions for a major global issue based on the amount of diverse perspectives
Expression Formats and Duration
While PowerPoint presentations will be the primary format, participants are also encouraged to express their ideas and values through a variety of creative forms — including news broadcasts, interviews, poetry, drama, animation, storytelling, documentaries, posters, artwork, skits, talk shows, music, songs, short films, debates, podcasts, photography, and more.
Each group will have 5 to 10 minutes to present and showcase their work.
Questions or Need Help?
If you are interested in joining as an individual representative, team, non-profit, campaign, school, or club, please click on the "CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP" button above to fill out a quick form or reach out at bcyouthhr@gmail.com for further inquiries. Your voice helps us understand you better.
Questions?
Please reach out to the contacts below if you have any questions or need clarification. Our team is happy to help and we’d love to see you and your team at the IYF 2025!
- BC Youth HR Leadership Team – IYF Responders
📧 bcyouthhr@gmail.com
- Grace Lee – IYF & BC Youth Coordinator
📧 gracel7552@gmail.com
📱 Text: +1 (778) 953-6416
- Elianna Eagles – IYF Lead Team Volunteer
📧 eliannaeagles@outlook.com
📱 Text: +1 (780) 552-6999
Sponsored by the Leadership & Innovation Lab
Thank you for your support!
Meet Our Leadership Team
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen.”
Brené Brown
International Youth Forum 2022
On August 26, 2022, BC Children and Youth Connection Society hosted our annual International Youth Forum. This year’s topic was Our Environment: Environmental Suitability, as our surrounding has changed rapidly in the past few years. With that in mind, we wanted to see what our youths had to say: Their concerns and how they could help. Nine teams and 34 participants joined to complete and share their perspectives and values through news broadcasts, poetry, presentation, drama, animation, and storytelling.
With gratitude to Dr. Oliva New and Mayor Malcolm Brodie for their wonderful speeches on our current issues, what we have done to protect our environment, and how we plan to continue doing so later, participants and the audience started the forum with both encouragement and inspiration. Throughout the night, teams showed off their well-prepared efforts and wowed everyone. Eventually, through a tight vote from the audiences, B.C.Y was voted first, Math and Logic was voted second, Environment Enthusiasts was voted third, and Phishy Business was voted most creative.
2022 Participant Teams
B.C.Y
The Environment Enthusiasts
The Environment Enthusiasts
Presentation
The Environment Enthusiasts
The Environment Enthusiasts
The Environment Enthusiasts
News Broadcasts
The Chaotic Three
The Environment Enthusiasts
The Chaotic Three
Presentation
ALMN
Earth Roar
The Chaotic Three
Presentation
Peeps
Earth Roar
Earth Roar
Story Telling
Earth Roar
Earth Roar
Earth Roar
Presentation
Phishy Business
Nature's Stewards
Nature's Stewards
Drama
Nature's Stewards
Nature's Stewards
Nature's Stewards
Poetry
Math and Logic
Nature's Stewards
Math and Logic
Presentation
2021 Participant Teams
Goblets of Potatoes
Goblets of Potatoes
Goblets of Potatoes
Presentation
Pandas
Goblets of Potatoes
Goblets of Potatoes
Interview
SG Trapped Girls
Goblets of Potatoes
SG Trapped Girls
Artwork
Phishy Business
Berry Bear Benson
SG Trapped Girls
News Article
XXL
Berry Bear Benson
Berry Bear Benson
Presentation
Berry Bear Benson
Berry Bear Benson
Berry Bear Benson
Presentation
Ascension
Dream Cluckers
Dream Cluckers
Live Action Play
Dream Cluckers
Dream Cluckers
Dream Cluckers
Interview
A Squared
Dream Cluckers
A Squared
Photo Documentary