Happy New Year!

As we look towards the New Year, we are eager.  We are excited.  2012 will see the realization of the dreams and plans the Fairbanks community has been working towards for years.  This year, Fairbanks Youth Advocates will open ‘the Door’ and welcome its first clients: runaway and homeless youth seeking shelter.  We are working hard and making progress towards this opening – securing funding, developing policy, creating and maintaining partnerships with other agencies in the Interior.  Those are our steps, but our goal is the same as ever – providing safe shelter for homeless youth with compassion, faith, and love.

This will be a year of hard work and planning – but by this time next year, we will have opened our doors and filled that gap in service.  Now, as ever, we are grateful for the support and generosity of the community.  Without community support, ‘the Door’ would never become a reality. We would like to extend our grateful appreciation to our donors and volunteers of 2011 – you make all of this possible.