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PATHIn America, our homeless population is found on the dirty streets of our city. In Asia, homelessness is perched near the sky.
Tag Archives: youth
“It’s a Hard-Knock Life for Us”: Homeless Children’s Invisibility in U.S. Schools and Beyond
Dec 15, 2014 – 9:00 am
Over a million homeless children in the U.S. (and countless who have not been included in homeless counts) continue to experience “hard-knock” lives. They don’t need a billionaire, like Oliver Warbucks to save them. They need us to collectively unmask hidden issues and create tangible solutions that prevent and end their homelessness. It is not “their” problem to fix. It is all of ours.
Too Close To Home: Let’s Not Kid Around About Child Poverty
Nov 11, 2014 – 8:28 pm
A third of our nation’s children reside in homes defined as poor, where the household income is below 60% of the national median income for 2008, or $31,000. In other countries, this annual income is a fortune, but in this country, a family that survives on $31,000 per year places their children on a pathway to adult poverty, if not homelessness.
But First, Let Me Take a Selfie
Oct 27, 2014 – 4:53 pm
Homelessness and other societal issues cannot simply be cropped or photoshopped out of our lives. We must face them head on.
Legalize Pot, Increase Homelessness
Aug 4, 2014 – 9:42 pm
It seems to me that, if every state legalized cannabis, then the incentive to migrate to another state would end.
School Kids and Homelessness Should Not Mix
Nov 12, 2013 – 10:43 pm
Unfortunately, 1.1 million American school children call homeless shelters, vehicles on the streets, and even the streets, home. They certainly won’t be bringing apples to their teachers. The barriers that homelessness imposes upon school kids are significant.
What Does it Really Mean to be “Vulnerable”?
Mar 25, 2013 – 11:43 pm
Vulnerable. It’s a word we often use to describe the clients our programs target—individuals who have serious health, mental health, and substance abuse challenges; who are frequent utilizers of hospitals and emergency rooms; and who are at high risk of dying on the streets. Veterans, seniors, families, and youth also often fall into that category. But, when we’re talking about more than 650,000 homeless people in our country, what does “vulnerable” really mean?
Saving a Lost Generation
Sep 17, 2012 – 7:23 pm
You, our next generation of American adults, should have the right to a safe home, where you are surrounded by people who love you. But instead, 1.7 million of you are escaping your family homes in search of a place where you are free to live the you are supposed to live. Sure, most of you eventually return home, perhaps because your search leads you to a dead end. But thousands of you leave your family homes permanently. Thousands of you, who are still transitioning into adulthood, are experiencing an animal-like life on the streets. Even at age 15, or younger.
Survey Yields Insights on Washington DC Homeless Youth
Dec 15, 2011 – 9:00 am
Back in February, DC Councilmembers Jim Graham and Michael Brown introduced a bill that would, among other things, give us a better fix on who is homeless in the District and what services are — and ought to be — available for them.
Nothing’s happened with the bill, so far as I can tell, since the hearing in June.
But something has happened to address the main focus of the hearing — unaccompanied homeless youth.
