08/27/2025
Jelly Roll we hope your stay was everything you hoped for!
We are still here serving the community and want to extend an invite to our initiative 🙏🏾
Help us grow a community around our youth struggling with addictions, trauma and help us with our goal for recovery.
Youth Ambitions - Growing Potential
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This has been on my mind and heart for some time now.
I started Youth Ambitions for a purpose and for a specific reason and was supposed to be the goal for Youth Ambitions - Growing Potential
When I was a kid a show called Neon Rider was the show that started my dream to help youth. It's funny because I was one of those youths that needed help at that time.
The show is simple yet a testament to what we have always needed....Preventative measures for our youth and additionally for NB.
the show was about a Physiologist who purchases a ranch just outside of Mission, British Columbia to open a therapeutic residential treatment program for troubled and abused teens.
As a youth I think I just wanted to go there and receive those services or to just run away (which I did at 14).
Fast forward Youth Youth Ambitions - Growing Potential has been running for almost 7 years now and through this we have worked with over 4000 youth in NB, NS.
We have provided the following services, Counselling, drives to mental health appointments, food security for youth living on the streets or couch to couch, skills training (construction, mechanics, life skills training, Anti-Racism programs and awareness, housing, cultural sensitive training and much much more.
We provide all these services free of charge and sometimes at a cost of my own or through community donations and or auctions.
Over the Covid times we also offered summer programming free of charge so that our youth didn't get disconnected. We offered Hiking, fishing, swimming, sport activities during this time, all funded through our online auction.
But lately, its not enough and we are seeing more and more youth going missing, experiencing homelessness and more and more are becoming addicted to more than just Ma*****na, its Alcohol, fentanyl, with the going trend is Molly and Co***ne mixed with whatever.
Youth need services more than ever and we do have some out there doing great things like Youth Impact Jeunesse Inc. BGC Moncton Youth Ambitions - Growing Potential Youth QUEST Central/Centre de Jeunes QUEST Moncton East Centre YMCA Atlantic Wellness Centre and many more.
But one thing we are missing is recovery centres for our youth and not just Addictions but also
Group and one-to-one counselling
Family counselling
Recreation
Support for transition back to Community
Skills training (leave the recovery with tools and a trade to continue your success)
Live in services for recovery
Life skills training
and much more
Soooooooo here it is.....My goal and my way of using Youth Ambitions - Growing Potential the way it was intended but its big but not as big as the problem we have in NB.
I want to lease, purchase, rent whatever is needed a farm where I can open a youth recovery centre a full service, recovery service. The youth would receive addictions counseling, Trauma informed counseling, they would work the farm care for animals, renovate, build, learn small mechanics, learn to care for something more than themselves and to take control of their lives and meet them where they are now in their recovery. Each recovery client will be given a specific plan for them, they will be very much apart of their recovery, what they want from recovery, build relations or rebuild their relations, becoming community members and contributing to their communities.
But its a big one and I need everyone!!!! Share, donate, help, volunteer whatever is needed to make it happen.
We need both provincial and Federal, we need a miracle, we need community funding/donations, Businesses, Sponsors and whatever I am missing.
Lets make change for our community because waiting for those in charge to make this happen just means more waiting and with that whatever we are doing to help our current issues in Moncton will only resurface because we are forgetting our youth.
Think to yourself how many missing youth have you seen lately?
Ask yourself, how do you see our community now and do you think we as a community, doing enough?
How many of us have used the current recovery services only to see our youth either continue or refuse the same services and limited services they have.
If you would love to help or have ideas please email [email protected]
Let's do better, be better and show up better for those looking up to us for answers. Lets be the answers they need!!!
https://gofund.me/2d39aabd
