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Show Youth and parents need help in runaway situation she has completed that program, she has become actively involved with her mother and the advocacy program. pro-gram. Their efforts are now being spent in getting assistance converting the old historic rock hotel in Farmington Farm-ington into a facility for housing young people who need help. The facility would also be able to give information to parents of runaways. run-aways. The plan to convert the rock hotel into a youth-at-risk service center will become a reality if the citizens and businesses of Davis County give financial support to the project. (See Adopt-a-Rock Campaign.) By JAMS STUART FARMINGTON-' "There is a need for a centrally-located place where youth can be housed for a short period of time and where parents can come tc receive help in locating youth who have run away,' stated Marsha Avant-Roth. She is a mother who has had personal per-sonal experience in the need for such a place. Roth is a member of the Utah Advocates for Parents and Youth-at-Risk, a Davis County-based nonprofit non-profit organization that wants to provide alternatives to parents and youth in an effort to eliminate the runaway and exploitation partem. Roth's daughter ran away from home when she was 13. It all began one day when her daughter did not come home from school. Roth began asking questions of her daughter's friends and was told that the child had been left in a certain cer-tain area and was thought to be on her way home. That turned out to be untrue. Roth finally discovered that the friends had taken the girl to Salt Lake City with another girl she had met at the park by Bountiful Junior High. Roth contacted Woods Cross Police Chief Paul Howard for assistance. "He was extremely helpful. In fact, he was wonderful during the entire situation, " said Roth. However, the need for more assistance through other agencies became apparent during the trying experience of getting her daughter returned. Roth was at a loss for a place to receive help in locating her daughter, and established agencies did not seem to be able to assist her. "Through our experience, I realized real-ized the need for a place where children can safely go for a 'cooling off period' and where parents can go to get information," explained Roth. Roth's daughter was finally returned re-turned home and then attended the WINN Institute for 45 days. Since |