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“In the last year, it became relevant that we need to look at mental health in youth,” the Chair of Gravenhurst Against Poverty’s (GAP) Young Adult Centre Committee Desarae Doolittle says.
She explains after GAP did a needs assessment with youth in the community it became obvious that young people in Muskoka need a space to call their own. Doolittle adds that the space needs to be a building for them to be “safe and healthy” in, not something linked to being sick.
Since GAP was created in 2017, Doolittle says mental health support has always been a “pillar of our work.” Because of that, she says the idea of a young adult centre “slow morphed” into the project they’re working on now.