The family health team here has received an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant of $216,300.
Suzanne Trivers, health team executive director, said the grant will be split over three years and used to hire a coordinator to develop a plan to assist young people in finding services they might require.
The plan is based on the findings of a Wellington-Guelph drug strategy report released in June last year that found young people in the northern part of the county lack ways of connecting with services in Guelph that could assist them.
“In that review it was identified that youth in the northern part of Wellington County have fewer opportunities to keep them out of trouble,” Trivers said of resources not available to northern county residents.
Trivers said the coordinator will look at ways to assist young people and eventually create a youth council and be looking at “skills you (young people) need to roll with the punches.”
The coordinator is expected to be hired within the next two months.
Other organizations that also recently received Trillium grants include: Hospice Wellington, $188,500 over three years; The Elora Centre for Environmental Excellence, $143,000 over two years; Elora Rocks Lawn Bowling Club $14,900 over one year; and Centre Wellington Community Radio Inc., $59,400 over one year.
