Red Cross Youth Links are present in five secondary schools and in one primary school. Each year, over two hundred young people benefit from Red Cross training programmes, and BRCS provides ways to create a movement of constructive, civic-minded youth, who are keen to help make their communities and schools safer environments. The Red Cross Youth Links programme continues to generate much interest and excitement among school children.

Amongst the key aims of the Youth Link programme is to inculcate the value of working individually and with teams within a wider organization; therein helping young people to develop important personal and professional skills. These include the ability to think critically and solve problems, and the assumption of personal and group responsibility. It can also help young people gain self-confidence and self-esteem.

Youth are exposed to a wide range of thematic areas including health (e.g. HIV/AIDS public awareness, hygiene promotion and first aid) to disaster management and violence prevention. This level of exposure provides informal guidance to support career choices and to promote socially responsible behaviours.

As such, members continue to graduate from the Youth Links programme into the general membership of the Barbados Red Cross Society.