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Helping A Growing Number of 'Invisible' Homeless Teens

Helping A Growing Number of 'Invisible' Homeless Teens - Florida ranked third in the nation for homeless youth, and the number of homeless teens in Collier and Sarasota shelters and programs saw increases ...

Community Corner: Texting Helps Bay Area Homeless Teens

Community Corner: Texting Helps Bay Area Homeless Teens : SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A new texting program will aim to help homeless teens find shelter in the greater San Francisco area. An estimated 1.37 million or 39% of the total homeless population are children under the age of 18. Claudia Asprer, founder and ...

Simple necessities go a long way for homeless teens

Simple necessities go a long way for homeless teens  - Community Health Centers of Burlington kicks off a toiletry drive for homeless teens during the month of October. With cooler temperatures approaching, travel  ...

Homeless teens seen as growing problem across Massachusetts

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Homeless teens seen as growing problem across Massachusetts : By State House News Service Activists in Massachusetts say that a number of factors is leading to an increasingly high number of homeless teens in the cities and towns across the Bay State. (AP File Photo) By Colleen Quinn, State House News Service ... MassLive.com

Campers raise awareness, funds for homeless teens

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Campers raise awareness, funds for homeless teens : " By Kim Lincoln | Mar 21, 2011 Rockland — About 20 adults from around the Midcoast gave up their warm beds the night of March 19 to tent out in Rockland's Chapman Park to raise awareness for homeless teens. The camp-a-thon was a collaboration between ... knox.VillageSoup.com "

Helping homeless teens

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Helping homeless teens : "By Hillary Gavan There will be a benefit held to help homeless teens in Rock County later this month. Beloit residents Linn Krafjack and Bob Parker will ...

Outreach aimed at helping homeless teens

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Outreach aimed at helping homeless teens Sarah's mom, who also was homeless for a while, is now living in Seattle. Sarah said she sees her on weekends, but her mom is not in a stable position to take her in. Teens become homeless for a wide range of reasons, Cavender said. Ireland | United Kingdom | America | Las Américas | Stigmabase

Homeless Teens More Often Denied Shelter And Separated From Families

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Homeless Teens More Often Denied Shelter And Separated From Families : "And we know millions of teenaged kids aren't living in homeless shelters because if they were the numbers of homeless people in general would have balloon ...

Gay Mass. Teens More Likely to Be Homeless

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Gay Mass. Teens More Likely to Be Homeless : "by Steve W. One in four lesbian or gay teens and 15 percent of bisexual teens are homeless in Massachusetts compared to just 3 percent of exclusively heterosexual teens, a new study from Children's Hospital Boston has found. The study, published online ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Homeless teens: How to help debated

Homeless teens: How to help debated : "As Heather Denny, the Bozeman School District's liaison with homeless children, retells the story, the girl replied, "'I don't really have a place to go. ...

Homeless teens have new options

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Homeless teens have new options : "Another teen went homeless when police arrested their father. And every night, another teen sleeps in an apartment with three other families unable to ...

Homeless Teens

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Homeless Teens : ""That's certainly a struggle, having that last bell ring of the day and not knowing exactly where you're staying that night," said Sherry Tipping, homeless education consultant in the Boise School District. "It's hard to ask for help, to tell someone, ...

Outreach aimed at helping homeless teens

Outreach aimed at helping homeless teens But for homeless teenagers, finding a place to sleep can be a struggle. According to figures from the Island County Readiness to Learn Foundation, 86 Whidbey Island students ages 13 to 17 were not living in the home of a parent or receiving parental ...

Homeless teens have new options

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Homeless teens have new options : "Another teen went homeless when police arrested their father. And every night, another teen sleeps in an apartment with three other families unable to ...

Bills Seeks to Aid, Provide Services for LGBT Homeless Youth

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Bills Seeks to Aid, Provide Services for LGBT Homeless Youth LGBT homeless teens won’t be discriminated against by federally funded homeless shelters, if a recently introduced House bill is signed into law later this year.

Homeless youth share experiences through public forum

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Homeless youth share experiences through public forum : TAMPA, Florida -- Governor Rick Scott is expected to be in Tampa Bay on Wednesday, listening to homeless teens and young adults as they share their stories. It's part of a public forum, the first of its kind held by the Homeless Coalition of ... WTSP 10 News

The Interview: Lisa Stambolis with Health Care for the Homeless

The Interview: Lisa Stambolis with Health Care for the Homeless : As director of pediatric and adolescent health at Health Care for the Homeless in Baltimore, she organized people — including homeless teens — to press for change. It worked. A new law offering more leeway for minors' medical treatment goes into ...

Anoka County's homeless numbers increase slightly

Anoka County's homeless numbers increase slightly This shack was discovered in a desolate wooded area in Blaine and may have served as shelter for homeless teens. File photo by Sue Austreng Thousands of homes nestle in between, blanketing the horizons, providing warmth and shelter, ...

Bringing Homeless Youth Awareness to the Metro During Rush Hour Traffic

Bringing Homeless Youth Awareness to the Metro During Rush Hour Traffic OMAHA (KPTM) – You may have seen people standing with signs on several corners around Omaha Wednesday evening. They were part of an organization that raises awareness about homeless teens. Mayor Jim Suttle declared November as National ...

Medford teens charged with stomping homeless men in the Back Bay ...

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Medford teens charged with stomping homeless men in the Back Bay ... : "Sico and MarinoTwo Medford teens beat and kicked homeless men so viciously police seized their blood-drenched shoes as evidence, according to a police report. James Marino and Marc Sico, both 19, were arrested after they and a third man ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | AMERICA