Homeless Teens
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Homeless Kids - Did You Know?
# Between 1.3 and 2.8 million runaway and homeless youth live on the streets of America each year.
# One in seven youth will run away from home before the age of 18.
# Parental substance abuse is the largest predictor of runaway behavior in youth.
# Runaway/homeless youth are 50% male and 50% female, though females are more likely to seek help through shelters and hotlines.
# Prior to leaving home, nearly half (43%) of youth reported being beaten by a caretaker.
# Forty-one percent of youth who've run away had been abandoned by their parents or caretakers for at least 24 hours.
# A little over a quarter of youth who've run from home have had parents or caretakers request sexual activity, and 32% have been forced to participate in sexual activity against their will.
# Forty-one percent of females seeking shelter report being pregnant.
# Seventy-five percent of runaway and homeless youth have dropped out or will drop out of school.
# Twenty-six percent stay in unsupervised and possibly unsafe places for one or more nights.
# Twelve percent spend at least one night outside in a park, on the street, under a bridge or overhang, or on a roof top.
# Thirty-two percent have attempted suicide at some point in their lives.
# One in seven youth will run away from home before the age of 18.
# Parental substance abuse is the largest predictor of runaway behavior in youth.
# Runaway/homeless youth are 50% male and 50% female, though females are more likely to seek help through shelters and hotlines.
# Prior to leaving home, nearly half (43%) of youth reported being beaten by a caretaker.
# Forty-one percent of youth who've run away had been abandoned by their parents or caretakers for at least 24 hours.
# A little over a quarter of youth who've run from home have had parents or caretakers request sexual activity, and 32% have been forced to participate in sexual activity against their will.
# Forty-one percent of females seeking shelter report being pregnant.
# Seventy-five percent of runaway and homeless youth have dropped out or will drop out of school.
# Twenty-six percent stay in unsupervised and possibly unsafe places for one or more nights.
# Twelve percent spend at least one night outside in a park, on the street, under a bridge or overhang, or on a roof top.
# Thirty-two percent have attempted suicide at some point in their lives.
Food - Getting It Where They Can
Hand2Paw
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Hand2Paw is an organization in Philadelphia that connects homeless youth and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way.
Hand2Paw empowers young adults to take charge of their lives, learn real marketable skills, and pursue fulfilling employment through working with animals.
Hand2Paw's programs also seek to teach youth in our city to treat animals with respect and kindness.
Finally, Hand2Paw's youth volunteers provide hundreds of hours of care, training, grooming, and socialization to thousands of Philadelphia's shelter animals. This ensures that the homeless animals in our city's shelters remain stimulated, happy, and behaviorally sound as they await their adoptive homes.
Hand2Paw
Made In The USA by Billie Letts
The bestselling author of WHERE THE HEART IS returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home.Made in the U.S.A.
Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.
Made in the U.S.A.
. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.
Made in the U.S.A.
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