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In response to the needs of at-risk youth in our community, New Morning has launched a Capital Campaign to build a new Emergency Shelter for runaway and homeless youth and a new Counseling Center. The capital campaign is managed by New Morning’s Board of Directors, and all funds contributed go solely to the facility project. The new counseling center and shelter will be located on Ray Lawyer Drive, overlooking West Placerville. The 3.5-acre campus consolidates the Counseling Center, which is currently housed in three different locations and the Emergency Youth Shelter and will allow New Morning to take advantage of synergies, share counseling and meeting rooms, and improve the quality of our services.
“A lot of grandparents are raising kids. One 78-year-old woman who is raising her grandchild calls us when she is exhausted, at the breaking point. Her three granddaughters come for the weekend so grandma can rest up.” “The need has always been there. We’re paying today for what was ignored 30 years ago—children of parents who did not get the support they needed. It goes on exponentially until we can break the chain, until someone or something intercedes.” “Whether our students are facing depression, abandonment, or substance abuse, New Morning gives them tools to sustain themselves. We see better grades, better relationships and better behavior. It is a wonderful partnership.” “I was often called to family disturbances with kids acting out and parents pleading for help. ‘Where do I go?’ ‘How can I get help?’ We’ve always had New Morning to send them to. They have always been there.” “New Morning provides stability for so many youth who come from chaos, whether victims of social, emotional or sexual abuse or broken homes. New Morning helps them first make sense of their world and then recover so they can go on and lead meaningful lives and not recreate a painful past.” “We’d be better off putting all of our money with organizations like New Morning. It’s a whole lot cheaper to help our youths than incarcerate them. And once they’re in the system it can be almost impossible to rehabilitate them.” “New Morning fills a critical need in our schools. Sometimes New Morning provides the only significant adult in a student’s life. Just one caring adult letting a child know he or she matters is the most important thing we can do to ensure the safety of our students, teachers, staff, schools and
community.” “Not all kids get to grow up in a nice environment. Many have gotten the message that they have no value. If all we do is provide a place where, for a moment, they are recognized as a valuable human being, we can change a life.” In 1996, New Morning was providing services to less than 500 youth each year. Ten years later, our services reached nearly 2,000 youth. We are simply out of space. By expanding the Counseling Center itself to double its current size, New Morning will be able to expand its services, including Youth and Family Counseling, Early Childhood Counseling, and Parent-Child Interactive Therapy. For more iformation about the services we provide, please visit our Services page. With just over 1,000 sq. ft and six beds, our shelter is inadequate to meet today’s demands for serving homeless youth and periodic demand in excess of our current bed space results in turning youth away. In addition, the issues facing our sheltered clients have continued to grow more severe and the space available is often inadequate to cope with the many emotional struggles the youth face. Our proposed new shelter is also near a variety of other services important to the case management of sheltered youth (Child Protective Services, Boys and Girls Club, County Mental Health and Pubic Health, other recreational opportunities, and all major community bus lines). The structure will be approximately 3,500 square feet and consist of: 6 bedrooms, 12 beds, a kitchen, a living/dining room, a recreation center, a media room (for study and recreation), a quiet room, and a supply room. New Morning includes youth in decision-making in regard to shelter operations through daily meetings with shelter staff and other residents, includes youth in the design of their own case management and clinical treatment plans, teaches youth skills for healthy, independent living during their shelter stay; introduces youth to the community agencies and individuals available to help them meet their personal goals; assists youth in identifying and joining peer groups where they can have fun, express themselves, and learn new skills, provides youth the opportunity to express their voice and participate in the management and production of Teen Voices, and promotes volunteer opportunities for youth to serve their community. For more about our Emergency Youth Shelter, please visit our Shelter Services Page. If you would like to support our efforts, we invite you to email Executive Director David Ashby at david@newmorningyfs.org and we will contact you shortly.
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Proposed Overall Site (click to enlarge)
“New Morning provides stability for so many youth who come from chaos, whether victims of social, emotional or sexual abuse or broken homes. New Morning helps them first make sense of their world and then recover so they can go on and lead meaningful lives and not recreate a painful past.”
“We’d be better off putting all of our money with organizations like New Morning. It’s a whole lot cheaper to help our youths than incarcerate them. And once they’re in the system it can be almost impossible to rehabilitate them.” |
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Proposed Overall Site (click to enlarge)
Proposed Shelter - North View (click to enlarge)
Proposed Shelter - West View (click to enlarge) |
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