YSS Named Recipient of Prairie Meadows Community Betterment Grants

Prairie Meadows has awarded funding from its Community Betterment Grants to YSS. It was announced that $10,000 will go toward the new 6^th Avenue Flats behavioral health offices and another $10,000 will go toward the YSS Technology Improvement Project.

Prairie Meadows Community Betterment Grants fund small-to-medium sized projects that seek to improve the lives of those in their communities.

6^th Avenue Flats

A collaboration between Hatch Development, Kiernan Development, YSS, DMAAC, and other community partners, 6^thAvenue Flats will provide affordable housing to low-income individuals in Des Moines. Some of the 42 apartments will be reserved for YSS youth who have aged out of the foster care system and are at-risk or experiencing homelessness.

As part of the project, YSS will open on-site therapy offices for YSS clinicians to provide support services to the residents, as well as the surrounding community. The Prairie Meadows grant will support furnishing of the office space.

 

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