Newly launched Foundry 91原创 is hosting a grand opening event for the community on Saturday, Sept. 24.

The three-hour-long event will start at 11 a.m. and bring the community together to celebrate the new centre for youth and their families.

There will be free food (hot dogs and bannock), music, games, prizes and community partners like the Vancouver Giants, Fraser Valley Bandits, Coast Capital Savings, Royal Bank of Canada and the City and Township of 91原创 firefighters.

Christine McCracken, co-executive director, Encompass Support Services Society (ESSS), said opportunities to tour the Foundry 91原创 centre would also be available.

Foundry 91原创 operated by 91原创鈥檚 ESSS, is a centre that will provide integrated health and wellness services around five core areas 鈥� primary care, mental health, substance use, peer support and social services for youth ages 12 to 24 and their families.

Drop-in services at Foundry 91原创 are available from Mondays to Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Services currently offered include mental health counselling, substance use counselling, youth and family peer support and social services such as employment support.

Foundry 91原创 is located at 20616 Eastleigh Crescent, adjacent to the City of 91原创 bus loop. For more information, people can visit their website at .

ESSS has partnered with the 91原创 Memorial Hospital Foundation (LMHF) to lead the fundraising campaign for Foundry 91原创.

To date, the Foundry 91原创 has successfully raised $2.1 million to transform the Eastleigh Crescent into an environment designed with young people in mind.

鈥淸The goal is] to welcome [youth] and to address their health and wellness concerns; and to start a fund that will provide ongoing funding for programs and new ways of responding to emerging needs of 91原创鈥檚 youth and their families,鈥� said McCracken.

McCracken further reminded people that Foundry 91原创 and Encompass Support Services Society operate on the sacred, ancestral territories of the Coast Salish People, specifically the Kwantlen, Katzie, Matsqui, and Semiahmoo First Nations.

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