Sudbury Action Centre for Youth to launch album

The Sudbury Action Centre for Youth is releasing an album this week, featuring the music of some people who use the centre.

Cheyanne Monk moved to Sudbury from Cobalt last year after spending a bit of time in Windsor working on her post-secondary education.

“When I moved to Sudbury, I didn’t have anywhere to move to,” she said.

“I came in a Greyhound and went straight to the shelter.”

From there, Monk said she was directed to the centre, known as SACY.  She received help finding an apartment and advice on education and employment.

She has also able to work on her musical skills — something that has been a part of her life since she was young. SACY has volunteers that work with the youth to help record, write and produce music. Steve Caruso is one of those volunteers.

“[The youth] bring the art to the table and it’s my role just to try and help convey that art into something that can be then packaged and expressed out to the world,” he said.

He said he finds his time working with the youth ‘hugely’ rewarding.

“If I happen to have had a bad day when I’m on my way into the action centre, it’s immediately dissolved upon spending time there,” he said.

“I get out of it a tremendous sense of satisfaction from seeing the projects come together.”

The album Reshape will be released this Saturday at SACY at 1 p.m.