How this inner-city Winnipeg youth shelter helps kids struggling with isolation, trauma find community

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A tall man wearing jeans and a black sweatshirt stands still in a grey concrete hallway as others walk past. Burn scars cover most of his face, only partially visible because of a hoodie pulled tight. 

“I’m treated like a ghost,” says Casper Harper, 20. 

“I don’t rely on anybody.  I’m basically a black sheep in every social situation.”

It’s 11 p.m. on a relatively mild Winnipeg night in January, and he’s clutching a baggie with a sandwich in it. He’s come to the West End 24 Hour Safe Space for Youth, in the inner-city Spence neighbourhood, for a bite.

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On this night, he’s not

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