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2.3KFight Against Youth Homelessness Includes Host Homes, 100-day Challenges
Relly Brown was so destitute in 2016 they could not even get a room in the abandoned house on the corner of...
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3.4KAs More Schools Aid Foster Students, Data on Results Needed, Researchers Say
Youth in foster care face a multitude of barriers when it comes to higher education. How will they pay for room, board,...
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2.7KJackson, Miss., Turns to Innovative Program to Lower Its Gun Deaths
Mississippi’s capital city is becoming a petri dish for an experiment designed to stop an epidemic of gun violence that claimed 84...
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5.1KThe Problem of Youth Homelessness Is Not the Fault of the Youth, Experts Say
The fight against youth homelessness drags on and on. It is not that the fighters are no match for a seemingly intractable...
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1.5KFoster Students Struggle to Get Financial Aid, Advice for College
“I view myself as a lone wolf. You can be around people but still feel very much alone,” said Gianni Cuevas, who...
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1.9KYV LifeSet Program Teaches Skills Youth in Foster Care Miss
A chance invitation freed Elizabeth Turner from the revolving door of the North Carolina foster care system and homelessness and set her...
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1.8KCharlotte Nonprofit Raises Private Funds to House Couch-surfing Youth
Keiston Davis regained his life when he almost lost it.
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4.1KCalifornia Foster Students Get Patchwork of College Support
The shops are beginning to come alive on a Monday morning as Yamina Inzunza arrives at a coffee shop popular with college...
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921Thank You For Your Donations
Thanks to people like you who donated to our Center for Sustainable Journalism during 2018 NewsMatch, we raised more than $54,000.
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1.4KNY Activists Mourn ‘Elder Statesman’ Who Fought for Justice for Slain Son for 24 Years
More than a week since Christmas, Donna Carter-Heyward’s Brooklyn apartment still had the cozy warm atmosphere of the holidays. A small Charlie...
