About
Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice 世代同行會 supports youth and low-income immigrant seniors in Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside. We build power in our community through intergenerational relationship building, and by helping seniors overcome language and cultural barriers to services that meet their basic needs. We combine service provision and grassroots organizing, with a core belief that service work is political and that as a community, we have the tools we need to take care of one another. We empower seniors and youth to work together to improve their communities and tackle the difficult problems of oppression and violence. Our vision is of a Chinatown that is intergenerational and thriving, with accessible and culturally relevant services and an environment that cherishes our seniors and youth.
Yarrow recognizes and values the diversity of everyone in our community. As an organization we are committed to welcoming and affirming the human rights of all people, including racialized people, Black and Indigenous peoples, LGBTQIA2S+ people, sex workers, people who use drugs, and disabled people.
世代同行會在唐人街和市中心東端為青年和低收入年老移民提供支持。我們通過建立多代同堂的關係和幫助老年人克服其滿足基本生活需求遇到語言及文化的障礙，而增加社區力量。我們認為服務的提供是政治性行為，而我們社區的資源足以相互照顧，因此結合了草根組織和服務工作。我們支持青年和長者合作以改善自己的社區，應付壓迫和暴力的複雜社會問題。我們展望一個繁榮昌盛、多代同堂的唐人街，而此唐人街無障礙、有符合居民文化的服務社，並且有珍惜我們的青年和長者的環境。
世代同行會支持所有人的人權，包括有色人種、原住民、LGBTQIA2S+（男同性戀、女同性戀、雙性戀、跨性別人士）、性工作者、藥物使用者和行動障礙者/身心障礙者(前稱殘疾人士)。
vision
mission
We envision a thriving, equitable, and intergenerational community
in Chinatown.
To remove barriers to health care, housing, and income access and provide services, advocacy, and education that develops youth and senior leadership and builds community power in Chinatown.
願景
我們的展望是一個繁榮昌盛、公平公正、多代同堂的唐人街
使命
提供和推動服務、宣傳和教育，培養青年和長者的領導能力並建立唐人街的社區力量
values
We will take action against systems of oppression and build the future we need together, rather than reproducing capitalistic, carceral, and patriarchal systems of oppression. We will actively work to dismantle the non-profit industrial complex.
We will seek and empower leadership within the community. We will ask those who are struggling with leadership to take reflexive and appropriate actions, moving towards accountability and away from complicity.
We will be honest and brave in addressing conflict. We will engage in consensual and radical accountability processes that center those harmed and allow space for others to learn from their mistakes.
We will honour feedback and recognize that we make mistakes and are always learning.
We will listen to, respect, and have compassion for each other.
We will have fun, be nourished, and grow together.
We will center relationships as the building blocks of change.
As a trans- and queer-centric organization, we will welcome and affirm the freedoms of all people, including racialized people, Black and Indigenous peoples, LGBTQIA2S+ people, sex workers, people who use drugs, and disabled people.
We will challenge settler colonialism and our own privileges, build solidarity with Black and Indigenous organizing, racialized people, and decolonize our communities and ourselves.
價值觀
採取行動反對社會壓迫制度，共同建設我們需要的未來，而防止重複資本主義、監獄制度和父權主義等壓迫制度，並且積極拆除非營利性組織的工業綜合體。
在社區內尋求和培養領導能力。我們會要求領導能力不足的人士進行適當的自我反思，將被動傾向改成有責任性的行為。
我們會勇敢和誠實地面對沖突。我們將參與合意和激進的問責過程，以受害者為中心、並為他人提供從錯誤中學習的空間。
尊重對我們的反饋、並接受我們會犯錯，而需要不斷改善學習。
互相傾聽、互相尊重，並有惻隱之心。
一起開心玩，一起得到滋養，一起成長。
把人與人之間的關係作為變革的基石。
作為一個以跨性別人士和酷兒人士為中心的組織，我們支持並肯定所有人的人權，包括有色人種、黑人、原住民、LGBTQIA2S+（酷兒）人群、性工作者、藥物使用者和行動障礙者/身心障礙者(前稱殘疾人士)。
我們將挑戰殖民者的殖民主義和我們自身的特權，與黑人和原住民組織團結起來，將社區和自己的殖民注意排除。
The Significance of Yarrow
Yarrow is a common plant that has been used by people as medicine for thousands of years. It is found in the Americas and Asia, and grows even in poor soil. The Chinese character for “yarrow” (蓍) has the character for “old age” or “elder” (老) at its centre. Similarly, the centre of our work is to build strong intergenerational relationships. The Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice is founded on the belief that freedom from oppression will come through the strength of our relationships, across generations, united in struggle for justice.
community partners
221A
BC Health Coalition
CARES for Equitable Health
Carnegie Community Centre
Chinese Community Response Network
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
DTES Neighbourhood House
DTES SRO Collaborative
DTES Response
Exchange Inner City
hua foundation
Masks4EastVan
Massy Arts Society
Network of Inner City Community Services Society
Ray-Cam Community Centre
Strathcona Community Centre
S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Vancouver Second Mile Society
WATARI
WePress
Youth Collaborative for Chinatown
Y.P. Heung Foundation
FUNDERS
Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice is grateful for funding support from our granters and partners including BC Artscape, the Province of British Columbia, the BC Ministry of Health, the City of Vancouver, Disability Alliance BC, DTES Response, The Federation of Community Social Services of BC, Mazon Canada, Network of Inner City Community Services Society (NICCSS), SUCCESS, Tiny Foundation, Unity Asian Employee Resource Group (ERG), the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health, WorkBC, 221A, and our community of donors.