WHY WE EXIST
Within the Vancouver area, hundreds of teens are in need of a supportive community. These youth find themselves lacking a stable home, a strong support network and healthy role models. Many of these youth have one or more parents who is struggling with drug or alcohol addiction and/or have a parent who is absent from their life due to death or abandonment. Lacking guidance in the home, a majority of these youth find themselves repeating these cycles from an early age.
Many teens, including a disproportionately high percentage of Aboriginal youth, have spent part of their life in the foster care system. Often placements are short-term with young people being bounced between foster homes and biological family. This high level of instability hinders healthy development and has long-term impacts. By the time these young people enter their teen years, they are often struggling academically in school, carrying a high level of anger and turning to substance use to numb the pain.
Inner Hope Youth Ministries believes that together we can reach out to these youth at this critical stage of their lives. Through caring and mentoring relationships, and for some the provision of stable housing, we can help them develop into the people they were meant to be. The cost of not doing this, both for these youth and for society, is far too high. We aim to shatter multi-generational cycles of poverty, addiction, abuse and dependency on welfare. By God's grace, we will see His love transform these young people as we journey with them through their development into stable adults impacting their families and community.
Many teens, including a disproportionately high percentage of Aboriginal youth, have spent part of their life in the foster care system. Often placements are short-term with young people being bounced between foster homes and biological family. This high level of instability hinders healthy development and has long-term impacts. By the time these young people enter their teen years, they are often struggling academically in school, carrying a high level of anger and turning to substance use to numb the pain.
Inner Hope Youth Ministries believes that together we can reach out to these youth at this critical stage of their lives. Through caring and mentoring relationships, and for some the provision of stable housing, we can help them develop into the people they were meant to be. The cost of not doing this, both for these youth and for society, is far too high. We aim to shatter multi-generational cycles of poverty, addiction, abuse and dependency on welfare. By God's grace, we will see His love transform these young people as we journey with them through their development into stable adults impacting their families and community.