News From The St. Lawrence Youth Association

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Thank You for Your Support

Thank you to United Way KFL&A, for their donation in December 2024 and ongoing support to strengthen our Specialized Treatment Program, enabling us to provide tailored interventions for youth with concerning sexual behaviors. This partnership helps create safer environments, supports positive behavioral change, and promotes healthier communities for everyone.

Thank you to the Community Foundation of Kingston & Area for their donation in December 2024. St. Lawrence Youth Association is deeply grateful for their generous funding, which made the creation of the sensory space at Sundance possible. This calming and therapeutic environment will provide youth with a safe space to regulate emotions, reduce stress, and build resilience, enhancing their overall well-being.

We thank the Department of Justice for their support of our program “Empowering Youth for Success”, which provides innovative trauma-informed aftercare programming to justice-involved youth. Support is provided through the Youth Justice Fund that supports individual projects that encourage a more effective youth justice system, responds to emerging youth justice issues and enables greater citizen and community participation in the youth justice system.

We would like to thank Taggart Parkes Foundation for their support and donation for cellphones for youth served by the SLYA Community Team for 2025. We sincerely appreciate their generosity.

General

SLYA RECEIVES TWO GRANTS

August 10, 2022 – St. Lawrence Youth Association is pleased to receive two United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) and City of Kingston 2022 Community Investment Funds grants . The first grant is for The Specialized Treatment Program for youth and, the second grant is for Reintegration and Support for youth. These one-time grants encourage innovative and collaborative responses to social needs in our community. United Way of KFL&A & City of Kingston jointly grant $451,169 to local programs through Community Investment Fund Non-profit organizations in the community will receive one-time grants through the joint fund.

Project Maple Leaf extends ProjectOnRoute

an initiative of a 16 year old survivor of human trafficking (commercial sexual exploitation). Project Maple Leaf, supported by Courage 4 Freedom (www.courageforfreedom.org), is taking the next step in bringing greater awareness to human trafficking in Canada. On July 30th 2021, the UN recognizes “World Day to End Human Trafficking” and Project Maple Leaf takes a bold new direction in the fight of child exploitation. As Kelly Tallon Franklin (Chief Executive Director – Courage for Freedom) so aptly stated “we need to stop fishing downstream and move up stream to stop the exploitation of children by johns.”

30 September 2021: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

St. Lawrence Youth Association would like to acknowledge September 30, 2021, as the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honours the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.