Goodwill Young Adult Opportunity Center on West Chestnut Street-Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Goodwill of Kentucky marked a new beginning for a center that will help young people facing challenges.

Wednesday, leaders cut the ribbon on a new Youth Opportunity Center on West Chestnut Street in Louisville.

The center will help young people ages 16 to 24 work through issues such as abuse, homelessness and life after incarceration. It will also connect them with educational and employment assistance, therapy, legal assistance and other services.

"I've seen people that I was in the streets with in here, in this program doing something good for their self and trying to change," said Kerrion Watts, who utilized the center. "If you want a better future, if you want a better life and if you need people who care about you to be around you, then this is the perfect place to come."

Resources provided at the center include "The Spot" programming, developed with Louisville's workforce development board KentuckianaWorks.

"This program is essential in helping us connect disenfranchised young people with the resources they need to be successful," Mayor Craig Greenberg said in a news release. "It's a team effort to ensure public health, safety and economic opportunities are available in every neighborhood in every corner of this community, and partnerships like this one help make that possible."

This is just one of Goodwill's 12 statewide Opportunity Centers. To learn more, click here.

Goodwill's West Louisville Opportunity Center opened in March in the city's Parkland neighborhood. 

The Spot recently opened a new Young Adult Opportunity Center in the Southland Terrace shopping center in Shively.

To learn more about The Spot, click here.

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