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All posts tagged "homeless youth"
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2.0KNewsSocial Emotional Learning Critical In Atlanta School For Homeless Kids
For those children who have had traumatic experiences, a safe and respectful environment is a basic need. It has to be created...
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1.7KNewsIndianapolis Schools, Partners Setting Up Hubs For Homeless Students, Other Needy Families
When a school district goes virtual, what happens to homeless students? School often provides them stability and a place to access resources...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayYouth Homelessness Is a Symptom, Not a Cause
SERIES: PART 5 OF 7 Part 1: How Do We Make Youth Homelessness Effort Bipartisan? Part 2: America’s Biases Marginalize Youth, Drive Them to...
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3.7KNewsFormerly Homeless Youth Urge Congress to Act During Pandemic
When Han Johnson thinks about her younger self, she wonders how she would have survived the COVID-19 pandemic during high school. It’s...
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4.8KNewsWashington State Young Adults Often End Up Homeless After Leaving Treatment
In Washington state, thousands of children and young adults like Patrick experience homelessness soon after exiting psychiatric and substance use disorder treatment.
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1.7KNewsNM Schools Providing Academic Coaches, School Packets, Food to Struggling Students
The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning have exposed a number of unexpected and difficult educational achievement gaps for New...
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2.1KGrantsHomeless and Runaway Youth Services Training Center Program Grant
GRANT FOCUS: Homeless/Runaway Youth, Youth Welfare, Youth Services, Street Youth | Amount: $1,800,000 - $2,100,000 | Deadline: June 26, 2020
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1.2KGrantsYouth Homelessness Prevalence Research Grant
GRANT FOCUS: Youth Homelessness, Runaway/Homeless Youth, Research, Youth Welfare, Safety | Amount: $400,000 - $2,000,000 | Deadline: July 1, 2020
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2.0KNewsIntensive Coaching, Group Therapy Helped California Foster Youth at Risk for Homelessness, Chapin Hall Study Shows
In the transition from adolescence to adulthood, even the best-prepared kids can be expected to stumble.
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3.1KGrantsHomeless and Runaway Youth Basic Services Center Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Homeless Youth, Runaway Youth, Youth Health/Welfare, Safety, Human Services | Amount: $50,000 - $200,000 | Deadline: July 3, 2020
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1.4K► ReportsLost At Home: The Risks and Challenges for Internally Displaced Children
A new report from UNICEF takes a comprehensive look at the global internal displacement of children due to conflict and violence.
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3.2KFrom the BureausNew York Homeless Youth Feel Lonely, Stuck, Isolated
First he lost his job as a shift manager at McDonald’s. Then the movie theater, the bowling alley, all the places he...
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2.9KNewsCOVID-19 Adds to Woes of Homeless New Mexican Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care
Javier seems like a well-adjusted teenager on the surface. He’s gregarious, funny, sometimes brutally blunt and also a bit awkward. When the...
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2.5KNewsYear-old Las Cruces Shelter for Homeless Youth Newly Challenged by Coronavirus
For a couple of years, homeless foster youth, runaways and other at-risk children in southern New Mexico had a handful of emergency...
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2.2KNewsHomeless Youth in Northern New Mexico the Focus of 2-Year Project
When the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness applied for a HUD grant on youth homelessness in 2018, they weren’t expected to...
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3.1KFrom the BureausYouth Homeless Providers Call on New York City Officials For Plan
As a global pandemic looms over New York City, one group in particular might be getting left behind, homeless youth — a...
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1.7KNewsN.M. Legislature Also Worked on Intersecting Foster Care Issues
There were both victories and setbacks for foster youth during the 2020 New Mexico Legislature in terms of bills that directly deal...
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4.3K► ReportsThe State Index on Youth Homelessness
True Colors United looks at 61 metrics in all 50 states to provide an overview of the challenges and barriers homeless youth...
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2.8KNewsChange in Washington Law Helps Parents With Their Teens’ Mental Health Needs
For about three months, Karen Kelly would drive around Enumclaw, Wash., after midnight looking for her 13-year-old daughter, Hollie. She carried Hollie’s...
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3.3KNewsCYFD Forging Ahead With Native American Court, Kinship Care
It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...
