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A Sanctuary Within a Sanctuary
Meet the Latte Family, who created Richard’s Reading Room at the Armoury Resource Centre and created a legacy of giving in memory of their son, Richard 1. Tell us a…
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Got Milk?
The YESS kitchens do thanks to a partnership with Alberta Milk! “It has been a huge relief for our kitchen to not have to worry about where we are going…
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Volunteering at YESS
Many hands make the work and healing done at YESS possible YESS volunteers are a huge part of the work we do in our youth programs, in our offices, at…
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Letter from Margo – Summer 2019
Every youth should have a safe place to call home. This is our goal, but we cannot do it alone. You’ve heard the saying, “It takes a village to raise…
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Spring Recipe from The Organic Box
The Organic Box provides hundreds of dollars’ worth of produce to our kitchens every week. They have also shared their passion for helping our youth with their Food Family initiative,…
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YESS Art Connections Program Empowers Youth
In February we hosted ART at ARC: Stories of Resilience, Strength & Creativity, the youth art show and sale to celebrate the artwork created by youth in the YESS Art…
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Underneath the Stars at the 2019 YESS Gala for Youth
On Friday, April 26, guests joined us Underneath the Stars at the 2019 YESS Gala for Youth! Guests arrived at the Edmonton Convention Centre and entered The Stars Align Foyer,…
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Meet Our Youth: AB
AB grew up in an abusive home. Soon they resorted to sleeping at friends’ places and sleeping outside. The first time they came to YESS was on a night when…
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Letter from Margo – Spring 2019
Welcome Spring and hello friends of YESS! You have most likely seen YESS use the #healtogether social media “hashtag” over the last 8 months. We at YESS have been trying…
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The YESS Kitchen Nourishes the Soul
At YESS our vision is to walk beside traumatized youth on their journeys towards healing and appropriate community integration. This doesn’t just apply to youth workers in Programs—it applies to…