Construction for a new Youth Crisis Centre in Thompson has begun. 

MLA Steve Ashton says the new facility will be called Hope North: Recovery Centre for Youth:

"It’s going to provide a 4 bed crisis stabilization unit, a 2 bed youth addiction stabilization unit, it’ll provide facilities for outreach services and I think the name of it really sums it up. It really is about hope and it’s about ensuring that when kids are in a crisis situation that there’s something there for them right here in Northern Manitoba". 

The building will be located next to the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba building, near the Thompson General Hospital.

Ashton says the $7 million facility will be operational late next year.