Episode 21: “She Counted Down the Days”

Part THREE of YOUTH VOICES

One Youth shares her experience in a psychologically abusive household and her escape in this episode of Homelessness in Hiding: Our Youth Between the Cracks.

Host Mya Moniz sits with "Vee," an anonymous youth client of REST Centres who shares her story of homelessness risk, and how she found her way to REST Centres and beyond.

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Vee’s Resources:

Reaching Adolescents in Need (RAIN)

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About the Guest:

Vee

Youth Client | REST Centres | She/Her

Vee is a youth with lived experience with homelessness risk. She shares her own story to advocate for others and empower other youth with similar experiences to stand up for themselves.

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About the Host:

Mya Moniz

Peer Support Leader | REST Centres She/Her

Mya is an independent youth and Former Crown Ward of the Peel Children’s Aid Society. She’s achieved an Honours Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction from the University of Toronto in English, Professional Writing and Communications, and Sociology. She also sits at the Senior Leadership Table for the Peel Alliance to End Homelessness as a youth with lived experience.

Mya believes there is great power in healing, growth, and catharsis through writing and storytelling, and she strives to help others tell their stories the way she tells hers.