Read our 2024 –2025 annual report

Our 2024-2025 annual report is now available, which highlights critical issues impacting young people and our work to advance their rights over the past year.

Some significant aspects of our work over the past year include:

• providing an advocate or lawyer to over 4,700 children and youth, of whom over 58% were Indigenous;
• continuing our journey of reconciliation with the opening of our ceremonial room and participating in land-based learning at University nuhelot’įnethaiyots’į nistameyimakanak Blue Quills;
• releasing investigative reviews that examined the circumstances of 60 young people who had passed away and 9 for young people who were seriously injured;
• making five new recommendations to government to help improve the lives of children and youth;
• developing plan to engage with young people and stakeholders for an upcoming special report on youth houselessness;
• and strengthening our youth engagement work.

A copy of the annual report can be found on the OCYA reports page.

Media inquiries:

Stephanie Shantz
Manager, Communications
Office of the Child and Youth Advocate
780-218-9429
stephanie.shantz@ocya.alberta.ca