From NAHJ memb. Jacob Rascon/Salt Lake Tribune: Utah woman nationally recognized for work with troubled teens.

from Salt Lake Tribune: (Michael Mangum | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lorrin Gehring of Provo and her son Max Gehring, 3, are shown outside of the Homeless Youth Resource Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, October 9, 2010. Gehring spends countless hours on the bench speaking with youth and young adults and listening to the challenges they face. For her years of work Gehring will receive the Young Adult Leadership Award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at the 5th Annual Voice Awards in Los Angeles.

NAHJ member Jacob Rascon, who is a multimedia journalism student at Brigham Young University, reports for the Salt Lake Tribune on the efforts of Provo, Utah resident Lorrin Gehring to help troubled teens.

Rascon reports that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has granted Gehring its Young Adult Leadership Award for mental health advocacy.

Check out Jacob’s story at: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50468307-76/gehring-health-mental-youth.html.csp.

Jacob is serving a Fall 2010 internship at the Salt Lake Tribune as an NAHJ-funded intern. NAHJ is able to provide this opportunity through a generous grant from the Chicago Tribune Foundation. He is the tenth NAHJ student member to be helped through this opportunity since 2004.