An app designed by kids at Egadz and used by group homes in Saskatoon is helping to reduce the number of missing person reports filed by police. The app, Missing Youth Saskatchewan, allows youth workers to assess if a missing youth is actually at risk or just hanging out with friends. This has led to a significant decrease in unnecessary police reports and interactions with youth.
An app designed by kids at Egadz and used by group homes is reducing the number of missing person reports for habitual runaways filed with Saskatoon police.Promise Gordon says she's experienced positive changes in her life since joining Operation Runaway two years ago. Gordon, 19, joined Operation Runaway a few years ago. The program is run by Egadz, a youth centre in downtown Saskatoon , and connects chronic runaways with community supports and professionals.
The latest addition to Operation Runaway's toolbox is the Missing Youth Saskatchewan app, a project led by Egadz youth, that was launched two years ago. "They'd be visiting their friends, watching a show, then knocking at the door. It was the city police there to pick them up and take them home. And they weren't drinking. They were sober. They weren't at any risk and it got really embarrassing and really tiresome for them."
Many of the habitual runaways live in group homes under government care. Just 10 addresses in Saskatoon were responsible for filing 46 per cent of missing person reports in 2023.
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