‘[It’s] been a silent monster in the background over the years that everybody's ignored and it's coming to light now’

‘We know that there's a lot of students out there who need a smaller community and who would benefit from a creative, social, emotionally-based school environment.’

‘There's a lot of people that go without care and I think that it's something that we don't talk about and it's something that they don't know is out there’

Local organizations, events awarded HOT funds