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Sponsored by: JoAnn Wine & Associates\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Written by Audrey Sochor<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0For more than 20 years Chief Brett Lester of the Sandusky Police Department has worked in law enforcement and knows you only get to see the world from the seat you sit in. His has been the seat of a police car, and he considers this viewpoint both a blessing and a curse. Together he and his officers see and experience hurt on a daily basis. He has also witnessed the growing population of homeless in and around Sandusky. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBeing a small rural county seat we have so few resources,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cA good police officer is a problem solver. You learn the resources available and you often get creative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Through it all he has let his faith guide him, and said even with all the dysfunction and people\u2019s tendency to backslid into criminal activities, he has also personally experienced their behavior change due to their own growing faith in Christ. More than just a homeless shelter, the idea of the Sanilac Rescue Mission was born.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Now all Chief Lester needed was to create awareness of the growing homeless population, and acquire funding to get the rescue mission up and running. Enter the Sanilac County Community Foundation and its Youth Advisory Council (YAC).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs a police officer he sees every day what we don\u2019t see with the homeless population and near homeless population,\u201d said Joshua Robinson, former YAC social media director and recent Sandusky High School graduate. \u201cAnd he sees them living in their car, he sees them going from home to home. He sees the kids who don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a safe, stable home. And he shared that with us, and we were just touched by it, and we were like we need to do something about this.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0A YAC is a grantmaking committee of a community foundation led by youth, for youth. Made up of high schoolers from each school district in the county, YAC not only gives out money to nonprofits but promotes volunteerism and raising awareness around community issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Youth Advisory Council really likes to connect with community,\u201d said Richie Barker, YAC co-chair and incoming senior at Deckerville High School. \u201cIt\u2019s where we give our time, talent and treasure in the community. We help everybody and we just really want to get involved with our younger kids and make them better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYAC also connects the students of the county with the adults of the county,\u201d Robinson added.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0To the YAC members the Sanilac Rescue Mission project had all the right components. Together Sanilac County Community Foundation and its YAC raised $20,000 in a month and challenged the community to raise another $20,000 with the hope of getting a $40,000 total over two months. \u201cAnd that just skyrocketed from there,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI think we\u2019re at a total of about sixty-nine thousand dollars.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Although helping a rescue mission get started is new territory for the Sanilac County YAC members, fundraising and creating awareness for homelessness is not. For years the group has run Cardboard City, a fundraiser for Eva\u2019s Place, the local domestic violence and homelessness shelter for women and children, and other homelessness projects. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Under federal education law, all children who “lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence” are homeless. According to a recent study from University of Michigan\u2019s Poverty Solutions, more than 250 students in Sanilac County are considered homeless \u2013 a statistic that shocked Stephen Barker, recent graduate of Deckerville High and former YAC senior co-chair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t see it in our county,\u201d Stephen said. \u201cIt\u2019s a different problem than it is in a populated area. There was a statistic that it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re living in a cardboard box or on the side of the road. It\u2019s that you\u2019re bouncing from parent\u2019s house to friend\u2019s couch, and that is very common with students in Sanilac County.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0With Cardboard City, Richie said YAC will collect cardboard and create boxes to set up on the courthouse lawn. Kids will then pay a donation to sleep there. Stephen added they also take shopping carts around to houses to collect nonperishable food and other items to donate to the shelter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be open to men, women and children, but prior to it there was no shelter in Sanilac County for homeless men, so the police department was forced to pay for hotel rooms to get them off the street. Stephen said YAC also supported that with Cardboard City proceeds, another thing Chief Lester is thankful for, along with their partnership on the rescue mission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSupporting youth leadership is very important,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cPreparing our youth to be proactive problem solvers is key to a growing vibrant community, no matter how small or large your community is.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0One of the reasons YAC supports the mission is because it goes above and beyond just providing shelter. Robinson said it will provide life classes, money management skills, alcoholic anonymous and substance abuse meetings, employment services, church services and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThere are reasons why people are in the situation that they\u2019re in and solving those reasons is the goal of the rescue,\u201d Stephen added. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Now that churches and other community partners have taken up the rescue mission, the YAC members are unsure of their future role, but Robinson said they still volunteer their time. Just recently he and some other YAC members helped rip out old, dangerous playground equipment at the mission site to clear the way for new.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Robinson, Stephen and Richie are OK with YAC no longer being the front and center along with Chief Lester on this project. For them, YAC and the Community Foundation are facilitators for awareness and connecting community partners with issues. Creating those partnerships is the goal, and their organization will always be open to those partners in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Chief Lester agrees with their viewpoint. \u201cThe support of a local community foundation, churches, businesses, and area youth leaders is central to successfully helping solve community problems and issues,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about community partnerships. It\u2019s all about people.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be opening its doors this summer to help provide radical hospitality to those in need. Check out www.sanilacrescuemission.org<\/span><\/a> for volunteering opportunities or to make a donation. \u00a0You can also \u201clike\u201d Sanilac Rescue Mission on Facebook<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sponsored by: JoAnn Wine & Associates\u00a0 Written by Audrey Sochor \u00a0 \u00a0For more than 20 years Chief Brett Lester of the Sandusky Police Department has worked in law enforcement and knows you only get to see the world from the seat you sit in. 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He has also witnessed the growing population of homeless in and around Sandusky. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBeing a small rural county seat we have so few resources,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cA good police officer is a problem solver. You learn the resources available and you often get creative.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Through it all he has let his faith guide him, and said even with all the dysfunction and people\u2019s tendency to backslid into criminal activities, he has also personally experienced their behavior change due to their own growing faith in Christ. More than just a homeless shelter, the idea of the Sanilac Rescue Mission was born.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Now all Chief Lester needed was to create awareness of the growing homeless population, and acquire funding to get the rescue mission up and running. Enter the Sanilac County Community Foundation and its Youth Advisory Council (YAC). \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs a police officer he sees every day what we don\u2019t see with the homeless population and near homeless population,\u201d said Joshua Robinson, former YAC social media director and recent Sandusky High School graduate. \u201cAnd he sees them living in their car, he sees them going from home to home. He sees the kids who don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a safe, stable home. And he shared that with us, and we were just touched by it, and we were like we need to do something about this.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0A YAC is a grantmaking committee of a community foundation led by youth, for youth. Made up of high schoolers from each school district in the county, YAC not only gives out money to nonprofits but promotes volunteerism and raising awareness around community issues.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Youth Advisory Council really likes to connect with community,\u201d said Richie Barker, YAC co-chair and incoming senior at Deckerville High School. \u201cIt\u2019s where we give our time, talent and treasure in the community. We help everybody and we just really want to get involved with our younger kids and make them better.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYAC also connects the students of the county with the adults of the county,\u201d Robinson added. \u00a0 \u00a0To the YAC members the Sanilac Rescue Mission project had all the right components. Together Sanilac County Community Foundation and its YAC raised $20,000 in a month and challenged the community to raise another $20,000 with the hope of getting a $40,000 total over two months. \u201cAnd that just skyrocketed from there,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI think we\u2019re at a total of about sixty-nine thousand dollars.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Although helping a rescue mission get started is new territory for the Sanilac County YAC members, fundraising and creating awareness for homelessness is not. For years the group has run Cardboard City, a fundraiser for Eva\u2019s Place, the local domestic violence and homelessness shelter for women and children, and other homelessness projects. \u00a0 \u00a0Under federal education law, all children who "lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence" are homeless. According to a recent study from University of Michigan\u2019s Poverty Solutions, more than 250 students in Sanilac County are considered homeless \u2013 a statistic that shocked Stephen Barker, recent graduate of Deckerville High and former YAC senior co-chair.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t see it in our county,\u201d Stephen said. \u201cIt\u2019s a different problem than it is in a populated area. There was a statistic that it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re living in a cardboard box or on the side of the road. It\u2019s that you\u2019re bouncing from parent\u2019s house to friend\u2019s couch, and that is very common with students in Sanilac County.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With Cardboard City, Richie said YAC will collect cardboard and create boxes to set up on the courthouse lawn. Kids will then pay a donation to sleep there. Stephen added they also take shopping carts around to houses to collect nonperishable food and other items to donate to the shelter.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be open to men, women and children, but prior to it there was no shelter in Sanilac County for homeless men, so the police department was forced to pay for hotel rooms to get them off the street. Stephen said YAC also supported that with Cardboard City proceeds, another thing Chief Lester is thankful for, along with their partnership on the rescue mission.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSupporting youth leadership is very important,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cPreparing our youth to be proactive problem solvers is key to a growing vibrant community, no matter how small or large your community is.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of the reasons YAC supports the mission is because it goes above and beyond just providing shelter. Robinson said it will provide life classes, money management skills, alcoholic anonymous and substance abuse meetings, employment services, church services and more.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThere are reasons why people are in the situation that they\u2019re in and solving those reasons is the goal of the rescue,\u201d Stephen added. \u00a0 \u00a0Now that churches and other community partners have taken up the rescue mission, the YAC members are unsure of their future role, but Robinson said they still volunteer their time. Just recently he and some other YAC members helped rip out old, dangerous playground equipment at the mission site to clear the way for new.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Robinson, Stephen and Richie are OK with YAC no longer being the front and center along with Chief Lester on this project. For them, YAC and the Community Foundation are facilitators for awareness and connecting community partners with issues. Creating those partnerships is the goal, and their organization will always be open to those partners in the future.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chief Lester agrees with their viewpoint. \u201cThe support of a local community foundation, churches, businesses, and area youth leaders is central to successfully helping solve community problems and issues,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about community partnerships. It\u2019s all about people.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be opening its doors this summer to help provide radical hospitality to those in need. Check out www.sanilacrescuemission.org for volunteering opportunities or to make a donation. \u00a0You can also \u201clike\u201d Sanilac Rescue Mission on Facebook.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/sanilac-county-youth-partner-with-police-chief-to-open-sanilac-rescue-mission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Thumbcoast.tv | ebw.tv - Serving Port Huron and the Thumbcoast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bluewatertv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-06T18:04:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-08-09T15:31:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Joshua-Richie-Stephen-1024x576.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"JoAnn Wine & Associates\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Written by Audrey Sochor \u00a0 \u00a0For more than 20 years Chief Brett Lester of the Sandusky Police Department has worked in law enforcement and knows you only get to see the world from the seat you sit in. His has been the seat of a police car, and he considers this viewpoint both a blessing and a curse. Together he and his officers see and experience hurt on a daily basis. He has also witnessed the growing population of homeless in and around Sandusky. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBeing a small rural county seat we have so few resources,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cA good police officer is a problem solver. You learn the resources available and you often get creative.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Through it all he has let his faith guide him, and said even with all the dysfunction and people\u2019s tendency to backslid into criminal activities, he has also personally experienced their behavior change due to their own growing faith in Christ. More than just a homeless shelter, the idea of the Sanilac Rescue Mission was born.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Now all Chief Lester needed was to create awareness of the growing homeless population, and acquire funding to get the rescue mission up and running. Enter the Sanilac County Community Foundation and its Youth Advisory Council (YAC). \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs a police officer he sees every day what we don\u2019t see with the homeless population and near homeless population,\u201d said Joshua Robinson, former YAC social media director and recent Sandusky High School graduate. \u201cAnd he sees them living in their car, he sees them going from home to home. He sees the kids who don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a safe, stable home. And he shared that with us, and we were just touched by it, and we were like we need to do something about this.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0A YAC is a grantmaking committee of a community foundation led by youth, for youth. Made up of high schoolers from each school district in the county, YAC not only gives out money to nonprofits but promotes volunteerism and raising awareness around community issues.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Youth Advisory Council really likes to connect with community,\u201d said Richie Barker, YAC co-chair and incoming senior at Deckerville High School. \u201cIt\u2019s where we give our time, talent and treasure in the community. We help everybody and we just really want to get involved with our younger kids and make them better.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYAC also connects the students of the county with the adults of the county,\u201d Robinson added. \u00a0 \u00a0To the YAC members the Sanilac Rescue Mission project had all the right components. Together Sanilac County Community Foundation and its YAC raised $20,000 in a month and challenged the community to raise another $20,000 with the hope of getting a $40,000 total over two months. \u201cAnd that just skyrocketed from there,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI think we\u2019re at a total of about sixty-nine thousand dollars.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Although helping a rescue mission get started is new territory for the Sanilac County YAC members, fundraising and creating awareness for homelessness is not. For years the group has run Cardboard City, a fundraiser for Eva\u2019s Place, the local domestic violence and homelessness shelter for women and children, and other homelessness projects. \u00a0 \u00a0Under federal education law, all children who "lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence" are homeless. According to a recent study from University of Michigan\u2019s Poverty Solutions, more than 250 students in Sanilac County are considered homeless \u2013 a statistic that shocked Stephen Barker, recent graduate of Deckerville High and former YAC senior co-chair.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t see it in our county,\u201d Stephen said. \u201cIt\u2019s a different problem than it is in a populated area. There was a statistic that it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re living in a cardboard box or on the side of the road. It\u2019s that you\u2019re bouncing from parent\u2019s house to friend\u2019s couch, and that is very common with students in Sanilac County.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With Cardboard City, Richie said YAC will collect cardboard and create boxes to set up on the courthouse lawn. Kids will then pay a donation to sleep there. Stephen added they also take shopping carts around to houses to collect nonperishable food and other items to donate to the shelter.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be open to men, women and children, but prior to it there was no shelter in Sanilac County for homeless men, so the police department was forced to pay for hotel rooms to get them off the street. Stephen said YAC also supported that with Cardboard City proceeds, another thing Chief Lester is thankful for, along with their partnership on the rescue mission.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSupporting youth leadership is very important,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cPreparing our youth to be proactive problem solvers is key to a growing vibrant community, no matter how small or large your community is.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of the reasons YAC supports the mission is because it goes above and beyond just providing shelter. Robinson said it will provide life classes, money management skills, alcoholic anonymous and substance abuse meetings, employment services, church services and more.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThere are reasons why people are in the situation that they\u2019re in and solving those reasons is the goal of the rescue,\u201d Stephen added. \u00a0 \u00a0Now that churches and other community partners have taken up the rescue mission, the YAC members are unsure of their future role, but Robinson said they still volunteer their time. Just recently he and some other YAC members helped rip out old, dangerous playground equipment at the mission site to clear the way for new.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Robinson, Stephen and Richie are OK with YAC no longer being the front and center along with Chief Lester on this project. For them, YAC and the Community Foundation are facilitators for awareness and connecting community partners with issues. Creating those partnerships is the goal, and their organization will always be open to those partners in the future.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chief Lester agrees with their viewpoint. \u201cThe support of a local community foundation, churches, businesses, and area youth leaders is central to successfully helping solve community problems and issues,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about community partnerships. It\u2019s all about people.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be opening its doors this summer to help provide radical hospitality to those in need. 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Enter the Sanilac County Community Foundation and its Youth Advisory Council (YAC). \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs a police officer he sees every day what we don\u2019t see with the homeless population and near homeless population,\u201d said Joshua Robinson, former YAC social media director and recent Sandusky High School graduate. \u201cAnd he sees them living in their car, he sees them going from home to home. He sees the kids who don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a safe, stable home. And he shared that with us, and we were just touched by it, and we were like we need to do something about this.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0A YAC is a grantmaking committee of a community foundation led by youth, for youth. Made up of high schoolers from each school district in the county, YAC not only gives out money to nonprofits but promotes volunteerism and raising awareness around community issues.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Youth Advisory Council really likes to connect with community,\u201d said Richie Barker, YAC co-chair and incoming senior at Deckerville High School. \u201cIt\u2019s where we give our time, talent and treasure in the community. We help everybody and we just really want to get involved with our younger kids and make them better.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYAC also connects the students of the county with the adults of the county,\u201d Robinson added. \u00a0 \u00a0To the YAC members the Sanilac Rescue Mission project had all the right components. Together Sanilac County Community Foundation and its YAC raised $20,000 in a month and challenged the community to raise another $20,000 with the hope of getting a $40,000 total over two months. \u201cAnd that just skyrocketed from there,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI think we\u2019re at a total of about sixty-nine thousand dollars.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Although helping a rescue mission get started is new territory for the Sanilac County YAC members, fundraising and creating awareness for homelessness is not. For years the group has run Cardboard City, a fundraiser for Eva\u2019s Place, the local domestic violence and homelessness shelter for women and children, and other homelessness projects. \u00a0 \u00a0Under federal education law, all children who \"lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence\" are homeless. According to a recent study from University of Michigan\u2019s Poverty Solutions, more than 250 students in Sanilac County are considered homeless \u2013 a statistic that shocked Stephen Barker, recent graduate of Deckerville High and former YAC senior co-chair.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t see it in our county,\u201d Stephen said. \u201cIt\u2019s a different problem than it is in a populated area. There was a statistic that it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re living in a cardboard box or on the side of the road. It\u2019s that you\u2019re bouncing from parent\u2019s house to friend\u2019s couch, and that is very common with students in Sanilac County.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With Cardboard City, Richie said YAC will collect cardboard and create boxes to set up on the courthouse lawn. Kids will then pay a donation to sleep there. Stephen added they also take shopping carts around to houses to collect nonperishable food and other items to donate to the shelter.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be open to men, women and children, but prior to it there was no shelter in Sanilac County for homeless men, so the police department was forced to pay for hotel rooms to get them off the street. Stephen said YAC also supported that with Cardboard City proceeds, another thing Chief Lester is thankful for, along with their partnership on the rescue mission.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSupporting youth leadership is very important,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cPreparing our youth to be proactive problem solvers is key to a growing vibrant community, no matter how small or large your community is.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of the reasons YAC supports the mission is because it goes above and beyond just providing shelter. Robinson said it will provide life classes, money management skills, alcoholic anonymous and substance abuse meetings, employment services, church services and more.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThere are reasons why people are in the situation that they\u2019re in and solving those reasons is the goal of the rescue,\u201d Stephen added. \u00a0 \u00a0Now that churches and other community partners have taken up the rescue mission, the YAC members are unsure of their future role, but Robinson said they still volunteer their time. Just recently he and some other YAC members helped rip out old, dangerous playground equipment at the mission site to clear the way for new.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Robinson, Stephen and Richie are OK with YAC no longer being the front and center along with Chief Lester on this project. For them, YAC and the Community Foundation are facilitators for awareness and connecting community partners with issues. Creating those partnerships is the goal, and their organization will always be open to those partners in the future.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chief Lester agrees with their viewpoint. \u201cThe support of a local community foundation, churches, businesses, and area youth leaders is central to successfully helping solve community problems and issues,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about community partnerships. It\u2019s all about people.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be opening its doors this summer to help provide radical hospitality to those in need. 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His has been the seat of a police car, and he considers this viewpoint both a blessing and a curse. Together he and his officers see and experience hurt on a daily basis. He has also witnessed the growing population of homeless in and around Sandusky. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBeing a small rural county seat we have so few resources,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cA good police officer is a problem solver. You learn the resources available and you often get creative.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Through it all he has let his faith guide him, and said even with all the dysfunction and people\u2019s tendency to backslid into criminal activities, he has also personally experienced their behavior change due to their own growing faith in Christ. More than just a homeless shelter, the idea of the Sanilac Rescue Mission was born.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Now all Chief Lester needed was to create awareness of the growing homeless population, and acquire funding to get the rescue mission up and running. Enter the Sanilac County Community Foundation and its Youth Advisory Council (YAC). \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs a police officer he sees every day what we don\u2019t see with the homeless population and near homeless population,\u201d said Joshua Robinson, former YAC social media director and recent Sandusky High School graduate. \u201cAnd he sees them living in their car, he sees them going from home to home. He sees the kids who don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a safe, stable home. And he shared that with us, and we were just touched by it, and we were like we need to do something about this.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0A YAC is a grantmaking committee of a community foundation led by youth, for youth. Made up of high schoolers from each school district in the county, YAC not only gives out money to nonprofits but promotes volunteerism and raising awareness around community issues.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe Youth Advisory Council really likes to connect with community,\u201d said Richie Barker, YAC co-chair and incoming senior at Deckerville High School. \u201cIt\u2019s where we give our time, talent and treasure in the community. We help everybody and we just really want to get involved with our younger kids and make them better.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYAC also connects the students of the county with the adults of the county,\u201d Robinson added. \u00a0 \u00a0To the YAC members the Sanilac Rescue Mission project had all the right components. Together Sanilac County Community Foundation and its YAC raised $20,000 in a month and challenged the community to raise another $20,000 with the hope of getting a $40,000 total over two months. \u201cAnd that just skyrocketed from there,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI think we\u2019re at a total of about sixty-nine thousand dollars.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0Although helping a rescue mission get started is new territory for the Sanilac County YAC members, fundraising and creating awareness for homelessness is not. For years the group has run Cardboard City, a fundraiser for Eva\u2019s Place, the local domestic violence and homelessness shelter for women and children, and other homelessness projects. \u00a0 \u00a0Under federal education law, all children who \"lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence\" are homeless. According to a recent study from University of Michigan\u2019s Poverty Solutions, more than 250 students in Sanilac County are considered homeless \u2013 a statistic that shocked Stephen Barker, recent graduate of Deckerville High and former YAC senior co-chair.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t see it in our county,\u201d Stephen said. \u201cIt\u2019s a different problem than it is in a populated area. There was a statistic that it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re living in a cardboard box or on the side of the road. It\u2019s that you\u2019re bouncing from parent\u2019s house to friend\u2019s couch, and that is very common with students in Sanilac County.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With Cardboard City, Richie said YAC will collect cardboard and create boxes to set up on the courthouse lawn. Kids will then pay a donation to sleep there. Stephen added they also take shopping carts around to houses to collect nonperishable food and other items to donate to the shelter.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be open to men, women and children, but prior to it there was no shelter in Sanilac County for homeless men, so the police department was forced to pay for hotel rooms to get them off the street. Stephen said YAC also supported that with Cardboard City proceeds, another thing Chief Lester is thankful for, along with their partnership on the rescue mission.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSupporting youth leadership is very important,\u201d Chief Lester said. \u201cPreparing our youth to be proactive problem solvers is key to a growing vibrant community, no matter how small or large your community is.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of the reasons YAC supports the mission is because it goes above and beyond just providing shelter. Robinson said it will provide life classes, money management skills, alcoholic anonymous and substance abuse meetings, employment services, church services and more.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThere are reasons why people are in the situation that they\u2019re in and solving those reasons is the goal of the rescue,\u201d Stephen added. \u00a0 \u00a0Now that churches and other community partners have taken up the rescue mission, the YAC members are unsure of their future role, but Robinson said they still volunteer their time. Just recently he and some other YAC members helped rip out old, dangerous playground equipment at the mission site to clear the way for new.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Robinson, Stephen and Richie are OK with YAC no longer being the front and center along with Chief Lester on this project. For them, YAC and the Community Foundation are facilitators for awareness and connecting community partners with issues. Creating those partnerships is the goal, and their organization will always be open to those partners in the future.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chief Lester agrees with their viewpoint. \u201cThe support of a local community foundation, churches, businesses, and area youth leaders is central to successfully helping solve community problems and issues,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about community partnerships. It\u2019s all about people.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Sanilac Rescue Mission will be opening its doors this summer to help provide radical hospitality to those in need. 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