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By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN

: ° . ° . i : DEBBIE Scarborough has a legion of young people who are

eager to help get her proposed youth emergency safe homie _ off the ground.

“Two dozen students from Parkside . Senior Secondary,

Caledonia Senior Secondary and Skeena Junior School have ” already toured the soon-to-be youth shelter.

-.Many of the students:are advisors to the Youth Emergen- cy Services Society (YESS) board as to what type of services

"they think are needed in the community. They'll also serve as representatives for young people in the community.

+ “They’ re:going to be my ambassadors for the whole proj- ect,” says Scarborough, adding the youth support has con- firmed the need for the shelter and its associated services.

Kyle Flavel, 16, says he plans to do whatever he can to

volunteer for YESS because he knows first hand why itis so

important.

” “T’ve been through a lot of safe homes my whole life and I’ve been kicked out of my house I don’t know how many _ times,” he says. “So I just want to help.” He believes, as do all the teens, that the. shelter will be .

. Tespected as an emergency service and not a flop house for : partiers. The students understand the role the facility is to ‘play in the community. y ; “T think it’s important because there are things people go through and they just need a place to go,” says Lewie Tait, ©

16. “I know because I’ve been stuck in a place:I didn’t want

* to be.and I know a lot of people who need this place.” '. The teens say the facility will be used by youth i in abusive

And they hope it will help prevent young people from

‘making dangerous choices such as hitchhiking late at night _when they don’t have a ride home. _— “They can come here for food. and to have a place togo . & instead of hitchhiking,” says ‘Flavel: "Louise Ormerod is the principal at’ Parkside Senior Sec: ondary School. She is keen to see the facility‘opened. 7

“I’ve had to search for homes for kids to go to at night, she says. “Just finding a place for’ them that’ Ss” safe is very

difficult, ”

And the teens say it offers an. alternative to couch suring or “crashing” ata friends’ home. —|_- °

Sarah Smoley, 16, says without a place to: ‘£0, some teens. feel like they are taking advantage of their hosts and are hes- itant to accept anything beyond a bed for the night.

’ “Then they feel like they are getting charity from people

or that they are mooching,” says Smoley. - :

The full service shelter‘will help give young people ac- cess to everything they need for the night'— food, a shower, _ toilet, and a warm bed — without feeling as if they are accept-.,

ing a hand out or conversely being a burden to their hosts.

_The safe home building was once housed the Ksan House Society’ s transition home for women and children. ©

It became available when the society. opened up'a new transition home earlier this. year. Scarborough was able to. purchase the building thanks to a more than $200, 000 loan”

-from an anonymous local person... . Scarborough still needs to secure more than $600, 000 per .

year in operating expenses. She’s forwarded the proposal to

both provincial and federal agencies but no commitments of

money have been n made yet.

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NORTHWEST - Community Collage carpentry students Terry Tan (left) and DH Wang:,

(right) build a staircase at the proposed youth. safe home.: They're doing the work :' as part of the practical experience component ofthe course and as a service to: ‘the community. They and other students have erected new. walls and framed. in some -.

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