Great news, but they need YOUR money! City Mission Halfway House for young people coming out of Ashley Youth Detention Centre
Launceston City Mission announced this week that they had purchased a property in Launceston to provide accommodation to young people being released from Ashley Youth Detention Centre and who have no home to go to. They have established an appeal to raise $200,000 towards the purchase cost so that they don't have to take out a commercial loan.The house will accommodate up to five young people and be supervised by house parents. The clients will also have access to Launceston City Mission Youth Workers and other specialist support services as required.
This is an important initiative which promises to fill a service need in Launceston for secure medium to long term housing and support for kids for whom other types of placements either haven't worked or are inappropriate.
We've contributed. I hope all our friends and readers will as well. Details of how to make a donation can be found at the City Mission website; remember to specify that you want your donation to go towards the Halfway House project.
Postscript: Sadly since the announcement there have been the usual doomsayers amongst the Letters to the Editor in The Examiner, predicting that property prices will crash and the neighbourhood will be plunged into an endless winter. Experience shows that the sun will continue to rise and that property prices will do likewise provided that the accommodation is well managed. I have every faith in City Mission to ensure that it is. And as an Examiner editorial pointed out this week, this is somewhere that young people will choose to opt into, rather than a State placement that could be viewed as an extension of institutional care.
posted by Alan Melton @ 12:54 pm
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