Our greatest success stories are always about positive outcomes for the young people we engage with. Here are a few comments from young people and their families where KYS has made a difference in their life:
Young person
“It’s (KYS) a family type place. You feel so welcome even when you walk in, doesn’t matter who is here it feels so welcome. Everyone is in a good mood, being here wasn’t a burden (for staff). Here it’s “how can I help you”.”
”The moral support I’ve got from KYS, the talking, the hanging out, the advice I’ve been given has helped me to change my ways and helped me to make decisions about what I’m doing with my life”
“If I didn’t have KYS I would have been dead, to be honest, as it was pretty crap and I was getting into drugs. No comparing KYS to anything else. I would’ve ended up dead, or on the wrong medication, or none at all”.
Parent
“We were absolutely terrified we were going to lose our young person. Without KYS, for some of us, we would be losing our youth. If we hadn’t come here we’d be brining our young person back from the city in a box”.
“My young person is improving a lot – and for me it was a great relief to find some help. I felt very hopeless dealing with their problems and my teens hostility before coming here to KYS”.