Congratulating Youthhope on its 20th Anniversary

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Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate YouthHope on its 20th anniversary.

For two decades now, YouthHope has been a safe, educational, and fun environment for children and teens from the Illinois Quad-Cities. YouthHope is an excellent example of how a group of dedicated citizens can have an outsized impact on their community. As a mother, I appreciate how important it is to protect our children and provide them with positive role models, encouragement and avenues to success, the very elements that YouthHope has provided to our young people for the last twenty years.

The staff, volunteers and everyone else involved at YouthHope should be truly proud of the impact that they have had on young people's lives in the Quad-Cities. I hope that others in our community and throughout the entire state of Illinois and country will look to YouthHope as a model for strengthening and giving back to the areas in which we live.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to again congratulate YouthHope on its 20th anniversary. I look forward to hearing more about YouthHope's good work over the next twenty years and beyond.

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