Pandemic brings third crisis to downtown east side youth

A photo of Kyrsten Boucher at her desk.
Kyrsten Boucher, Clinical Program Manager of Directions Youth Haven / Photo courtesy of Directions Youth Haven.
Laurence Gatinel - CFRO - VancouverBC | 07-08-2020
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By Tan Mei Xi

 

With the housing and opioid crisis already hitting the downtown east side (DTES), neighbourhood residents really didn’t need a pandemic to come into play as well.

We talk to youth and youth workers in the DTES about the impacts of the pandemic on the young people of the neighbourhood.