In 2024, the Homeless Student Stability Program supported more than 13,000 students across 49 school districts. | Opinion ...
“Unaccompanied and homeless youth, particularly 16- and 17-year-olds, have significantly lower attendance and graduation rates,” Eric Dunk, legislative representative for the California Department of ...
Tucked between the homes of an East Palo Alto neighborhood, there’s a small yellow building. Inside, on a weekday in late November, young people — ranging in age from adolescence to early adulthood — ...
Twenty-year-old Mikayla Foreman knows her experience is meaningful. Dealing with homelessness since 18 and currently living in a shelter, Foreman has managed to continue her academic journey, studying ...
Over 1.37 million children in U.S. public schools are experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Soles4Souls provides new, properly fitting athletic shoes to students in need. Data shows new shoes can ...
For years, San Diego’s youth homelessness response felt like trying to build a house without a blueprint. Everyone was working hard, but without a shared plan, the pieces didn’t fit. It wasn’t a lack ...
Lawmakers and advocates commemorated National Youth Homelessness Awareness Month on Tuesday at the Massachusetts Statehouse. Boston’s Chief of Behavioral Health Kevin Simon stands with Massachusetts ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A local organization is raising awareness about youth homelessness in a unique way: sleeping out in the November cold. Covenant House Michigan is hosting its first-ever ...
PITTSBURGH — Community members and students stood outside the City-County building in Pittsburgh to bring awareness to the growing number of homeless kids in Allegheny County. Members of the Homeless ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — From fresh meals to fresh clothes, Star House in Columbus provides young people struggling with homelessness with much more than shelter. But according to data from the Ohio ...
Homelessness hits harder when you're young. For high school senior Morgan Keller, she said she became homeless after experiencing abuse by her father. "I had come home from school one day, and my dad ...