She’s an attractive, friendly 17-year-old high school junior who has A’s and B’s in school. And, she’s homeless. The Cleveland teenager, who asked us to call her Lauren, says her mother kicked her out of the house about five months ago. Lauren spent the first night on her own on a park bench. “It was […]
The Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland will go green on Nov. 17 in honor of National Homeless Youth Awareness Month. “Homeless youth look different than homeless adults and are virtually invisible to most people,” says Karen McHenry, Bellefaire JCB Homeless and Missing Youth program director. “Homeless youth do exist in Cleveland and we are […]
It’s 10 p.m. on Tuesday night at the Streetwork Project overnight shelter in New York City, and many of the young residents are just settling in. The shelter, a renovated brownstone with brightly painted walls, houses 24 homeless youth aged 16 to 20, a fraction of the estimated 3,800 who are homeless in the […]
