In the fall and winter of 2006, McCreary Centre Society collaborated with a number of community organizations and youth to conduct a survey of marginalized and streetinvolved youth in nine communities across the province. We wanted to hear from youth about their lives and their needs, in order to help communities improve programs and services. One of the unexpected fi ndings of the research was that 54% of the youth surveyed across B.C. identifi ed as Aboriginal, which is much higher than the percent of Aboriginal youth in school (9.8%; Ministry of Education, 2007). Our community partners and co-researchers felt it was important to create an additional report to focus on the lives of the Aboriginal youth in the survey, and we agreed. This report is the result of additional discussions with stakeholders in the nine participating communities, as well as the work of a team of Aboriginal researchers and project advisors.