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Waymakers youth shelters calling for holiday donations Carol Carlson, Waymakers Orange County’s children’s crisis residential program director, stands in front of a fence of hand-stamps at one of the Waymakers youth shelters on Tuesday. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer) Carol Carlson knows that the novel coronavirus pandemic can really weigh on children. Carlson, the program director of the Waymakers Orange County youth shelters in Laguna Beach and Tustin, has seen it firsthand. “We’re concerned about the fragility of the kids,” she said. “What’s happened is that kids who already were at risk or suffering from depression and anxiety, this has kind of caused even more isolation for them. They don’t have their peers or school or other places where they can have outlets for some of those feelings and symptoms, and they’re maybe living in a home where there’s been some financial strain because of the pandemic.” ....