The Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming Inc. (SCYAP) provides arts and cultural programming that addresses the social, educational and economic needs of youth at risk .

The SCYAP Art Centre offers several programs, with a mandate to use visual art and community bonding as the key focus for the personal development, empowerment, and redirection of youth to a healthy, happy and productive life.

SCYAP was established in 2001 to offer street-level, youth-oriented solutions to crime and unemployment by using an interest in visual art as the key to personal development and redirection. SCYAP is Saskatoon’s only full spectrum visual arts centre  that focuses on young people but is available to people of all ages.

Our projects are simple, unique, and innovative. They are art and culture-based, community supported, crime prevention and intervention initiatives geared to the interests, ideas and lifestyles of Saskatchewan’s young people.

The organization serves as an entry point to further education and employment with a strong focus on community economic development, while building the social ecology of an inclusive community. In addition, SCYAP offers “at-risk” youth equal opportunity access to art and culture career development, and provides a beautiful artistic service to the Saskatoon Community.