Boys to Men Canada is a registered federal charity created to guide boys 13-17 on their journey to manhood. Boys to Men Canada provides funding, mentoring and leadership trainings for Boys to Men centres across Canada. We Empower Men to Provide for, to Protect and to Teach those who come after us.

       

•  By providing funding, mentoring and leadership trainings for Boys to Men centres across Canada, we support communities where men feel safe to tell the truth, and when men tell the truth, boys feel safe and will begin to trust them.

•   We  bring good men, Mentors and role models into boy’s lives, so that they learn integrity, accountability, compassion and respect. 

•   Divorce rates vary from just over 20% in Newfoundland and Labrador, to almost 50% in Quebec.

•   Only 10-12% of single parent families have the father as head of the household

The positive effects of father involvement include:
•   Less likely to engage in stealing, truancy, and drug use
•   Lower occurrence of psychological distress in teens whose fathers are close.

The challenges for boys in today's world are ever increasing. Boys still have too few positive role models and far too many negative examples of masculinity. Television, drugs, Internet pornography, and gangs compound this critical time in a young man's life. Too many good boys make choices they may not have made if they had a mentor to set a positive example, and to help see options and weigh consequences.

And everyday he is faced with choices he may have to live with for the rest of his life.

How might your life have been different if you had...

•    Someone you could trust to tell the truth.

•    A mature adult who cared about you.

•    A Mentor who could have helped you to find more options, to make more appropriate choices.

Our program gives each boy a chance to decide what kind of man he wants to be. 

Imagine Boy Scouts, Big Brothers, and Outward Bound combined. We provide a complete program with community (Boy Scouts), mentoring (BigBrothers), and a Rite of Passage adventure (Outward Bound) that serves both boys and men.

Boys to Men provides: 

1. A safe place for men to tell the truth. This begins with a training for the men who want to participate in the mentoring of our boys, Reclaim Your Teenage Fire Mentor Training. This experiential training gives men a new perspective on mentoring boys.

2. A place where boys learn they can trust men, because the men tell the truth. These boys earn the right to be called Journeymen, by completing their Rite of Passage Adventure (ROPAW) Weekend. This is a powerful weekend for both boys and men. It is a bonding experience that creates trust and respect, and builds connections between boys and Mentors.

Our boys and Mentors spend more time together on a Boys to Men Weekend than a typical mentor program provides in six months.