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  • YESS Executive Director Margo Long

    Letter from Margo – Summer 2019

    June 28, 2019 admin Life at YESS

    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…

  • Spring Recipe from The Organic Box

    May 23, 2019 admin YESS Champion

    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,…

  • YESS Art Connections Program Empowers Youth

    May 9, 2019 admin Life at YESS

    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…

  • Underneath the Stars at the 2019 YESS Gala for Youth

    May 3, 2019 admin YESS Event

    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,…

  • Meet Our Youth: AB

    April 16, 2019 admin Youth Story

    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…

  • YESS Executive Director Margo Long

    Letter from Margo – Spring 2019

    April 4, 2019 admin Life at YESS

    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…

  • The YESS Kitchen Nourishes the Soul

    March 27, 2019 admin Life at YESS

    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…

  • Winter Recipe from The Organic Box

    March 6, 2019 admin YESS Champion

    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,…

  • Meet Our Youth: Tom’s Story

    January 28, 2019 admin Youth Story

    My name is Tom and I am 21 years old. My girlfriend’s mother took me to the YESS Shelter about three years ago. I was in a real emotional state…

  • Board Member Robert Blackwell

    Interview with YESS Board Chair Robert Blackwell

    January 24, 2019 admin YESS Champion

    You’ve served on the YESS board for a number of years. What was it about the work YESS does that first drew you to YESS? I moved to Edmonton 11…

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