Youth Home Plans to Build Classrooms
The Optimist Youth Home in Highland Park has doubled the number of children it serves and started new kinds of therapy in the last 15 years, but with no corresponding growth in space.
Tired of the constant struggle to find space, officials have begun a campaign to build a 21,000-square-foot classroom building by 2003 to house their troubled charges.
Administrators say the building is integral to the success of the home for 100 boys on probation, and is the hub of several social service agencies and a 200-student high school.
The Los Angeles Planning Commission is scheduled to discuss the building proposal Dec. 6. If the plan is approved, officials must raise $22 million to erect the building.
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