Youth Today
All posts tagged "homelessness and justice project"
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5.9KGuest Opinion EssayHomeless LGBT Youth: How We Can Fight Their Invisibility, Including Youth of Color
Youth homelessness is a pervasive problem throughout the United States, and its rate has steadily risen over the years. According to the...
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3.7KGuest Opinion EssayHomeless Youth Don’t Realize How Much Legal Aid Can Help Them
Civil legal aid services are a necessary tool in preventing and eliminating youth homelessness. Though most young people do not initially identify...
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4.5KNewsCan Washington State Keep Youth Off the Streets After They Leave Detention?
By the age of 17, David Vanwetter had been in and out of detention perhaps a dozen times.
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10.1KFrom the BureausThe 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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3.7KNewsHomeless Youth Have Much Harder Time in Certain States, Report Finds
Dealing with homelessness is difficult under the best of circumstances, but some state laws make life even more challenging for runaway and...
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5.6KNewsHomeless Youth Are Virtually Invisible in Asheville — and Try to Keep It That Way
As thousands of tourists fawn each year over the opulent trappings of western North Carolina’s Biltmore Estates — a four football-field-sized homage...
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3.2KNewsYV 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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3.4KNewsCharlotte Nonprofit Raises Private Funds to House Couch-surfing Youth
Keiston Davis regained his life when he almost lost it.
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2.5KNews2008 Recession Helped Create Many More Homeless Youth, Expert Says
Medical sociologist Eric Wright’s work has taken him into parks, abandoned buildings, shelters and other places off the beaten path.
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2.7KNewsThe Young and Homeless Have Hard Time Avoiding Arrest
They’re on our streets. In our schools and colleges. They’ve probably taken your fast-food order. But you wouldn’t know it.
