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It is estimated that 1.6 million youth between 12-17 experience homelessness in a given year.

Member News

Below is a list of news items pertaining to National Network For Youth members.

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KVAL.com
Homeless, not hopeless: New store creates new opportunity
http://www.kval.com/news/local/116366524.html
HRC Back Story
American Bar Association Adopts Inclusive Anti-Bullying Resolution
http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2011/02/american-bar-association-adopts-inclusive-an...

This post is from Josh King, HRC Public Policy Advocate:

The Baltimore Sun
Scary -- and ineffective
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-01-31/news/bs-ed-scared-straight-20110131_...

January 31, 2011 | by Laurie O. Robinson and Jeff Slowikowski

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Leadership Opportunity for Youth on National Mental Health Awareness Day 2011
http://www.samhsa.gov/children/national.aspx

Vanguard Communications is currently looking for youth and young adults to be a part of SAMHSA's (Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration) Annual National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day 2011 event in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 which will focus on Enhancing Resilience for Young People Dealing with Trauma.

The Post and Courier
North Charleston attacking youth violence in early stages
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jan/09/i-believe-in-you/
The boy stroked his chin and gazed at the floor as his mother spoke. He challenges our decisions and talks back to his teachers, she told a police officer. He's a good kid at heart, she said, but he won't take orders from anyone.
www.al.com
More teenagers being left homeless in Birmingham, and help can be hard to find
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/01/more_teenagers_being_left_home.html
The Charlotte Observer
A safe place for at-risk teen mothers to live, learn
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/01/08/1964012/a-safe-place-for-at-risk-tee...

Rooms are painted in cheerful bright blues, pinks or greens.

Near the single beds, empty cribs with a few toys wait for babies to arrive.

As Caroline Looney walks through North Carolina's first transitional living facility for homeless and at-risk teenage mothers, she looks inside a large, bare storage closet.

Washington City Paper.com
Outsourcing Troubled Kids
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40237/outsourcing-troubled-dc-kids/

Jumiya Crump was on the run. It was close to 9:30 p.m. on July 1, 2009. “I just left,” she blurted into the phone. “I don’t know what to do.”

So Jumiya, 16, started walking. From downtown, she moved east, in the shadow of a freeway overpass, past a public housing complex. A Metrobus got her over the Anacostia River. Another short walk brought her to her grandmother’s house off Minnesota Avenue NE, the safest address she had ever known.

The Empire State Coalition of Youth and Family Services
Connecting the Pieces: Homeless Youth and Mental Health Services, Finding a Fit that Works
http://www.empirestatecoalition.org/main/pages/pubs.html

All youth deserve to grow up safe, healthy and prepared for the future; this is the philosophical underpinning which guides the work of the Empire State Coalition of Youth and Family Services.

Huffington Post
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire -- What Does it Say About the U.S.?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-quigley/eight-homeless-youth-die_b_802109.htm...

Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire during the night in New Orleans. They were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. The young people apparently had a barrel with wood burning in it for heat. Officials said this was the city's most deadly fire in twenty five years.

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