{"id":29,"date":"2025-06-09T23:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthforchrist.flywheelsites.com\/chapter-starter\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:10:17","slug":"our-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/our-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<section class=\"y-banner  guten-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"y-banner--container\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--inner\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--inner--bg right\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-09-at-11.18.28-PM.png);\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--inner--content\"><h2>Greater Moncton<\/h2>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"y-vfbc  guten-block triangle white single-col-align-left\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--triangle bottom-right primary no-bg-img\" style=\"background-image: url();\"><\/div>\r\n\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--container type-one-wide color-default bg-transparent\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--content\"><h2>The Hub City<\/h2>\n<p>Moncton is a vibrant, bilingual city located in southeastern New Brunswick. Known as the Hub City, Moncton has long been a central transportation, distribution, and economic hub for the Maritime provinces due to its strategic location between Fredericton, Saint John, Charlottetown, and Halifax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n<section class=\"y-columned-content image one center  guten-block\" style=\"background: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)), url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2022\/12\/01-flower-pot-low-tide-hopewell-rocks-e1778245917778.jpeg);\">\r\n\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"y-columned-content--title y-color-responsive-text\">A Generation in Need<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-columned-content--inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-columned-content--column y-color-responsive-text\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">The youth of New Brunswick\u2014and especially in the Greater Moncton area\u2014are facing a deep crisis that is not only social and emotional, but also spiritual.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1 in 3 youth (\u224830%) struggle with mental health<\/strong> (anxiety, depression, isolation)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Youth unemployment at 15.1%<\/strong>, significantly higher than the national average \u2192 lack of direction and hope, limiting their future. (NB unemployment rate Jan 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1 in 4 people in New Brunswick are immigrants or newcomers<\/strong>, and many youth face identity loss, cultural transition, linguistic barriers, and loneliness (*Third Culture Kids, TCK)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over 20% of youth report substance use<\/strong> (vaping, cannabis, alcohol) continues to be a growing concern as youth look for ways to cope and escape.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The majority of youth have no meaningful connection to a church or spiritual support system<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Behind every statistic is a young person searching for belonging, identity, and hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"y-vfbc  guten-block triangle white single-col-align-left\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--triangle bottom-right primary no-bg-img\" style=\"background-image: url();\"><\/div>\r\n\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--container type-one-wide color-default bg-transparent\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--content\"><h2>Strong Growth<\/h2>\n<p>Greater Moncton has had the second fastest growth of any metro area across Canada!<\/p>\n<p>A big part of this growth has come from families moving to Moncton from across the world. YFC Moncton sees the needs of many families new to Canada and the majority of families involved in our community programs are new to Canada within the past few years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/moncton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}