GRANT FOCUS: Community, Education, Youth Services, Health, Kentucky | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Jan. 12, 2024
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Hours after Jaidryon Platero attempted suicide, an employee of New Mexico’s child welfare agency visited...
As COVID-19 upended their usual protocols, some nonprofits that didn’t manage to alter their outreach strategies saw the tally of homeless youth...
More than 40,000 K–12 public school students in Washington experienced homelessness in 2017–18, a number that has nearly doubled in the past...
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of several articles in an occasional series about the intersection of OST and students experiencing homelessness.)...
Positive Tomorrows is among only a few schools in the nation, including the Monarch School in San Diego and the Boyce Ansley...
When a school district goes virtual, what happens to homeless students? School often provides them stability and a place to access resources...
We described in the previous column how the approach is four-tiered, beginning with collaboration. Collaboration is a term that has been bantered...
When Han Johnson thinks about her younger self, she wonders how she would have survived the COVID-19 pandemic during high school. It’s...
4.2 million. That’s the number of homeless youths in America every year. This opinion piece is about the 4.2 million, how and why...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online learning have exposed a number of unexpected and difficult educational achievement gaps for New...
GRANT FOCUS: COVID-19, Family Support, Basic Needs, Food Access, Housing, New York City | Amount: Average ~$45,000 | Deadline: Ongoing
First he lost his job as a shift manager at McDonald’s. Then the movie theater, the bowling alley, all the places he...
Javier seems like a well-adjusted teenager on the surface. He’s gregarious, funny, sometimes brutally blunt and also a bit awkward. When the...
For a couple of years, homeless foster youth, runaways and other at-risk children in southern New Mexico had a handful of emergency...
When the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness applied for a HUD grant on youth homelessness in 2018, they weren’t expected to...
As a global pandemic looms over New York City, one group in particular might be getting left behind, homeless youth — a...
“Gay kids in a shelter that is predominantly straight are very vulnerable, they’re in a very hard position and it makes it...
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...
Homelessness and a lack of education for unaccompanied youth are intertwined. Young adults who do not finish high school or get a...