For more than 30 years, Shirley Young has been known as the matriarch of the Dr. Peter Centre in Vancouver. Now, at the age of 91, she is starting a fund to help marginalized people.
Shirley Young says she is looking to continue her son Dr. Peter Jepson-Young's legacy with a new fund that aims to expand the Dr. Peter Centre's health programs across the country.Posted: Jul 30, 2024 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago
"We would look forward to coming every Wednesday … she would love us unconditionally," said Hazeel Cardinal, a former patient and resident at the centre established in 1997 in memory of Dr. Peter Jepson-Young. In 1990, Dr. Peter Jepson-Young went public with his AIDS diagnosis, becoming the face of the epidemic. He died on Nov. 15, 1992. In the days before he died, Jepson-Young set up a foundation, which, five years later, opened the Dr. Peter Centre in Vancouver.
Elliott says the fund will help the centre work with organizations across Canada to find ways of helping people living with HIV/AIDS and dealing with substance use, homelessness and mental illness — people marginalized in the community who Elliott says are not always being successfully treated in current health-care systems."We had lunch, and she goes to me, 'Scott, I want two things: I want to party, and I'm going to give you $100,000 … to keep my legacy going.
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