Get Involved with the CYPT!
Current Opportunities
Mark your calendar for 2025 CYPT Member Meetings
We’ve updated our annual events calendar with the meetings and gatherings we’ll host in 2025! View the calendar here and make sure to hold these in your calendar.
Subscribe to the CYPT e-mail bulletin to be notified about all the details as they are decided.
Support the CYPT
The CYPT is a municipal non-profit organization. The majority of our funding comes from community grants.
If you want to support the work that we do, please consider making a donation. Every bit is helping us to collect data, increase belonging, and help build Waterloo Region into the best community for children and youth in Canada.
Ongoing Opportunities
Get involved at a level that works for you!
Follow us on social media and share our content
- Follow CYPT on Instagram
- Follow CYPT on LinkedIn
Subscribe to our monthly email bulletin
We send out emails to all members once every other month. Subscribe to stay up to date with the CYPT and to hear more about how you can get involved.
Champion the work (and CYPT as a whole)
The CYPT is a community-wide partnership that includes service providers, researchers, planning bodies, and funders serving children, youth, and families in our community. Using a collective impact model, we strive to live our vision of happy healthy children and youth – today and tomorrow.
A great way to be involved is to champion the work. Talk about it at your organization, get to know the work the Backbone Team and other organizations are doing, and begin working to move the needle on the nine dimensions of child and youth well-being in your organization.
Use the Youth Impact Survey Data in decision-making
In the 2023 Youth Impact Survey, we heard from almost 1,900 young people about their life and experiences. Every time we run the survey, young people ask: “After the survey, what will the community do to take action?”
The Youth Impact Survey results are free and available on our website. We encourage everyone in the community to use them and the Data in Action Report to guide decision-making in our community.
Participate in asks (like surveys)
The CYPT Backbone Team occasionally sends emails that include things like surveys and requests for feedback. These emails are sent to capture the thoughts of members and to ensure that the focus of the Backbone Team is in line with the pulse of the membership. Thoughtfully replying to these asks is an important way that you can guide the work and ensure that it is moving forward in a meaningful way.
If you’re not already a Voting Member, consider becoming one
The CYPT currently has more than 1,000 general members and 69 voting member organizations (VMO). VMOs are based in Waterloo Region and are intentionally invested in the strategic direction and future of the CYPT. If your organization is intentionally aligning itself with the Vision of the CYPT and is working to move the needle on at least one of the nine dimensions of child and youth well-being, becoming a VMO might be the right next step.
Attend member meetings thoughtfully – send the best person from the organization
Full membership meetings are held a few times a year and each meeting is different. Plans for full-member meetings, revolve around how best information can be shared with the collective to help improve child and youth well-being in our community. When invitations to the meeting are sent, we recommend looking at the planned topics and decide thoughtfully who would be the best person in your organization to attend.
Support the CYPT
The CYPT is a municipal non-profit organization. The majority of our funding comes from community grants. If you want to support the work that we do, please consider making a donation. Every bit is helping us to collect data, increase belonging, and help build Waterloo Region into the best community for children and youth in Canada.
Join a Group
Learn more about the various Groups you can join.
Join a Nested Group
If you are interested in learning more about the groups or joining a committee, follow the links below: