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Jodi Lunt of the Davis Education Foundation shows off lockers at the teen drop-in center in Layton High School on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023.• In a deserted lot behind Layton High School sits an abandoned office building, its main entrance swallowed by overgrown bushes that line the sidewalk.
Currently, the foundation operates teen drop-in centers attached to six Davis schools for students who don’t have consistent access to resources “The question was asked within the community of, ‘Where are these young people sleeping?’” Lunt said, adding that usually, the answers vary, from “in the streets, or in the backs of different areas in our community, to motel rooms, campsites, couch surfing … or multi-housing situations.”The foundation is hoping to have the residential center up and runninig at the start of the next school year, Lunt said. It will offer 16 beds for district students in need.
The money for construction and operations will come from “public/private partnership, individual and corporate donors and grant funding,” according to the Davis Education Foundation website. “If you looked in other school districts, other schools, there was always the teacher that was purchasing food, or pencils, or backpacks out of their own pocket,” Whitworth said. “So our hope in doing this was also to relieve school counselors and school teachers, because we know their workloads are so heavy and they’re dealing with so much.”
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