Our grant will fund the expansion of one CCYA cottage (the Rise Up Academy in Building #3, which the kids call “grad school”) to transform unused training room space into two new bedrooms with a Jack and Jill bathroom, in keeping with the room layouts in the rest of the building. When completed, two more youth will have a safe and suitable place to recover and heal through a project that will last for years to come. This project will allow CCYA to offer each program participant his or her own room and space, which CCYA has learned is a critical need for its youth. Many of CCYA's program participants have never had their own bed before – let alone a whole bedroom – and it’s actually life-changing for them to have their own safe haven to decorate as they wish, to retreat to for a little privacy, and to be in charge of keeping clean and tidy. In addition, many residents suffer from trauma-induced emotional or behavioral issues that can be challenging for a roommate to experience, such as insomnia, nightmares, combativeness, and crying in the night. Recently, CCYA staff had decided to drop from 10 to 8 residents in Building #3 to eliminate two doubles after determining that singles provided vastly better outcomes for the residents. While this change resulted in a loss of state funding, CCYA staff knew that providing single rooms for this age group was the best thing therapeutically for the CCYA residents. This project will enable CCYA will be able to reclaim critical state funding.