Seeking a Windfall

It will cost approximately $150,000 to reopen the region’s only homeless shelter for unaccompanied adolescents, its operator announced last week.

Wind Youth Services unexpectedly suspended operations at its shelter on February 19, after running an annual deficit for two years. During that period, the six-bed shelter hosted nearly 200 youth between the ages of 12 and 18, Wind said in a release, kids “who have often escaped a home where they were victims of physical or sexual abuse, suffered from extreme poverty, were kicked out for their gender or sexual identity or a combination of the above.”.

Goodwill Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada pledged the first $10,000. Donations can be submitted online at www.windyouth.org/donate or mailed to Wind Youth Services, 1722 J Street, Third Floor, Sacramento, CA 95811.