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Youth Connection seeks food donations and funding support as it readies transitional housing

5834494 · September 17, 2025
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Youth Connection reported serving hundreds of young people and asked for community food donations while pursuing funding to build 12 transitional housing units; the organization said it used a CHIP grant to advance the project and will apply to the housing trust fund next.

Alex Banks, outreach coordinator and supervisor for the Youth Connection, told Mason County commissioners the nonprofit served 545 young people at its Shelton center in August and about 30 at the Belfair center, with six new clients at Belfair during the month. Banks said the program housed six young people into permanent housing in August and prevented two additional households from…

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