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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:22:52 -0500
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Feb. 27, 1999 Prince George B.C. Citizen
Youth at risk get help
by BERNICE TRICK, Citizen staff
Young prostitutes on Prince George streets and youth at risk of getting
into undesirable lifestyles are getting help from the provincial
government. The B.C. Ministry of Children and
Families is providing a full-time support worker to reach out to youth in
the sex trade in an effort get them off the street and onto the right path,
Children and Families Minister Lois Boone announced Friday. "These young
people are among the most vulnerable members of our society, and we must
make sure they have the resources they need to turn their lives around,"
the Prince George-Mt. Robson MLA said during the announcement at the Native
Friendship Centre.
Deryl Brin, co-ordinator of the Reconnect Program at the Native Friendship
Centre, is heading the support program for sexually exploited youth. Brin
said there are 45-50 youth in Prince
George who work the streets as prostitutes. They're not all on the streets
on a daily basis because some only work when they need money, Brin said.
During a recent 45-minute ride on a Friday night, Brin said she counted 14
youth standing on corners plying the trade. She said she has known of
prostitutes as young as 11 years old in
Prince George, and she said some even younger are sold from their homes.
The cost of the support worker is $50,000 a year. Boone said she hopes the
support worker, who will work out of the Native Friendship Centre, will be
on the job within a month. The program for sexually-exploited youth will
focus on those from 12-24 years who work the
streets, as well as the rest of about 400 youth considered high risk (not
in school, involved in crime and drugs), medium risk (great potential to
become high risk), and low risk (maybe in school, but have unstable home
lives).
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