A little over eight months since its doors opened, Dorie's House has announced they don't have the funding to keep them open any longer.

The shelter in Swift Current will close - for what management hopes is only a temporary period - on October 4.

The shelter - for people aged 14-17 that are either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless - officially opened on January 15, but has never been able to secure government funding.

To open, Southwest YES - which runs Dorie's House - received over $180,000 in community donations, $840,000 worth of construction costs donated, and over 34,000 hours of donated labour.

Dorie's House Chair and Southwest YES President Bob Hale said things have been trending in this direction for a while.

"We've been operating entirely with community support," he said. "We knew all along that it likely couldn't continue long term without some amount of government support. We felt that by being open and by government seeing the service we were providing and seeing the need that was there, we felt that we could make something work with government. But unfortunately that hasn't been the case."

Hale said they've had 25 youth through the facility, and a total of 500 overnight stays. He also said there have been around 22 cases of contact of with youth that didn't result in an overnight stay.

"We've been funnelled more towards provincial government," Hale said. "We're told it's a provincial government jurisdiction, so we've worked mostly with provincial government. We've been in contact, sent letters, had meetings, various contacts, and in spite of what we feel is an obvious need and an obvious service to the community, we have not had any support from government."

Hale said he's hopeful it's only a temporary closure. Next they'll be continuing trying to receive government support in order to reopen the place at the corner of Herbert St. E and 2nd Ave. NE.