The April 10 provincial budget will not include any funding for Swift Current youth shelter Dorie's House.

Shaun Hanna - president of the Southwest YES board that oversees the shelter - confirmed that he received the news from Minister of Social Services Paul Merriman.

Dorie's House opened in January, 2017 and Hanna says they closed after their eight-and-a-half-month pilot project where they feel they demonstrated a need for the shelter to the provincial government.

The shelter, which is for male and female youth, has never secured government funding.