YES - The Youth Emergency Shelter

Homelessness. That's a big city problem - not something we have here in Peterborough, right?

Wrong.

Each night of the year, on average, the Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough provides emergency housing to fifteen individuals - a total of approximately 5500 bed-nights annually. Those individuals may be youth - men or women as young as 16, on their own - or they may be a family, parents and children living together in just about every possible configuration.

For any variety of reasons, they need a safe, warm place to stay - sometimes for a few days, sometimes for several weeks.

Y.E.S. has been providing that safe haven since 2002.