Sébastien Rivard, 26, a fresh-faced street-worker with a discreet ponytail, lives with his parents on the neighbourly South Shore. The East End shelter where he works and its outreach program services runaways, homeless youth, youth on welfare and young people with drug problems.
Sébastien wants to help other young people, but sees available social programs drying up alarmingly. There seemed nothing he could do, no possible hope or future to offer, until he heard about the protest