School Youth Worker

Dept: Five minutes into a conversation between a school youth worker and a reporter, a teenager is seen crying in the cafeteria and needs consoling. A hungry student pops by to ask if she can get her free lunch - possibly the only meal she'll have that day - early. And a 16-year-old bounds over excitedly to say she has found a place to live on her own but needs a reference from the worker, according to Vancouver Sun. "One of the things I learned is our students are amazingly resilient," she said. "I'll see youths whose parents have died, whose homes are breaking apart, but they come to school every day. I see a lot of hope in that." The need is quickly apparent at the inner-city school of Kwantlen Park secondary in Whalley. Dynell Forman, who has worked at the school for the past four years as the YES Youth Educational Services coordinator, is a very busy woman in a job that could be heartbreaking if it weren't for her positive attitude. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.