Home for at-risk youth unveiled after extreme makeover

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Thanks to the hard work by the team at HeroWork, Threshold’s newest building is now complete!

Six homeless youth will move into a newly renovated building with a life-skills teaching space in the coming weeks, thanks to a massive community makeover of the donated four-unit apartment complex. “I can’t express my gratitude enough and also my amazement at the transformation,” said Mark Muldoon, executive director of Threshold Housing Society, which helps and houses youth ages 16 to 21 who are at risk of homelessness or in government care.

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Source: Times Colonist

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