Hanover is joining the Public Health Units fight to keep the Youth Action Alliance Program in Grey Bruce.
Council is lobbying the province to reconsider its plans to cancel the program.
John Diefenbaker high school student and Youth Peer Leader Dan Stretch is pleased with Councils support.
Stretch says its important the entire community gets behind this venture.
He says the Youth Action Alliance is more than just an anti tobacco program, it also provides an important voice for Hanover teens.
Under the umbrella of the program, Hanover’s two peer leaders have been involved with the Hanover Youth Centre, Youth Roots and the Sights and Sounds festival.
They are also members of a taskforce set up in response to Hanovers crystal meth problem.
Stretch says its not enough to leave this issue with Hanover Council.
He is challenging all of his teenage peers to pick up the phone, send an email or write a letter to their MPP demanding that the program be saved.
The province will end the 300 thousand dollars in funding for the youth program in Grey Bruce at the end of August.
20 student jobs and 2 full time youth advisor positions at the Grey Bruce Health Unit will also be lost.