SDLP Youth is currently organised across much of Northern Ireland, including University societies.

The group is split into a number of branches with the executive committee acting as the governing body of the organisation.

[10] The current youth wing started organising in the early 1990s bringing motions, such as the decriminalisation of marijuana,[11] to party conferences but it wasn’t until 10 June 1995 that SDLP Youth became a distinct section of the SDLP when it was added to the party constitution.

[15] At 2021 YES Congress Leah Rea became the first member of SDLP Youth to be nominated and elected to the YES Presidium as Vice-President.

[16] In 2016 SDLP Youth and YES held a joint seminar in Belfast on "far-right extremism and Brexit" which was attended by young socialist activists from across Europe.