[C]arlisle Key’s staff have awarded a former homeless young offender with Young Person of the Year for outstanding achievement in 2017.
Jonny Dubka won Carlisle Key’s Young Person of the year award because he has continuously make positive life choices.
He has overcome addiction, undertaken any training offered, joined the gym, sits on Carlisle Key Housing Committee and has just started being an ambassador for the charity.
Clare Brockie, Project Manager of Carlisle Key, said: “He is giving back to the local community and we wanted to praise him for this.”
When Jonny started working with Carlisle Key in 2015 he was really struggling to maintain any accommodation, this resulted with him having to sleep rough.
He was also struggling with addiction. Since then the staff at Carlisle Key have seen him transform his life, he started working with Unity and PHX Training to make some of these vital changes. Jonny is now looking towards the future and hopes to gain an apprenticeship in September. His long term aims are to work with Young People who are in the same situation.
For his efforts Jonny was awarded a ticket to Eden’s Butterfly Ball from the staff and trustees of Carlisle Key. Eden’s Butterfly Ball is raising money for Mind, Survivors of bereavement by suicide. Air Ambulance and Carlisle Key. Jonny will be attending the event as a representatives of Carlisle key with the staff and volunteers on the 29th of July.
