About This Business
Durham Youth Services is a registered charity working to end youth homelessness in Durham Region. Since 2008 it has operated Joanne's House, Durham's only youth-focused emergency shelter for ages 16 to 24, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, providing safe temporary accommodation, meals, computers and laundry. Its other supports include a rapid rehousing counsellor, a shelter diversion worker, a Youth Advocate team, Housing First for Youth intensive case management for chronically homeless youth, transitional homes (Harris House and Jacky's Place, up to one year), Nightstop host-volunteer short-term stays, Fresh Start Kits for moves to independent housing, and school-based housing support workers. Its mission is to partner with youth to achieve and maintain lasting solutions to their housing crisis, guided by the Housing First for Youth model. Note: the organization does not publish a street address or email address on its official site; the phone number is the public contact.
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