About Us 

CDYLC has a long history in Canada's deaf youth.

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​We are proud to continue this magical experience for all of deaf and hard of hearing youth across this beautiful nation. Changes through time has created many inspiring leaders, in every corner of Canada. 

Deaf Youth Canada (DYC) is a non-profit organization under the Canadian Association of the Deaf - Association des Sourds du Canada (CAD-ASC) in emphasis with the goal of raising awareness to the broader Deaf youth community about our Deaf leadership and our beautiful sign languages.

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History:

Deaf Youth Canada (DYC) was established by a group of Deaf youth leaders in 2008. They organized and hosted its first biennial Canadian Deaf Youth Leadership Camp (CDYLC) in Sylvan Lake, Alberta in the summer of 2008. Although there were camps for Deaf youth in the past across Canada, the CDYLC 2008 was the first ever to be run by Deaf youth only. The motto of DYC is "By youth, for youth, about youth." Since then, DYC is proud to have had hosted six successful camps since 2008. These camps came with fantastic support from our Deaf youth leaders. It is important to note that CDYLC also was around in the 1970s and paved the way for reestablishment in 2008 to now. 

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This will be DYC's 8th camp.