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Youth Homelessness

Because Every Child Deserves A Home

Karen Olson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: National Housing Trust Fund, At-Risk Youth, Homelessness, Family Promise, Youth Homelessness, Impact News
Karen Olson

Time and again people across the country share with me what a gift the act of volunteering has been for them. It's time to share what we have to prevent the frightening increase in homelessness, especially among families and children.

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Slash Holds Concert To Benefit Homeless Youth (INTERVIEW)

Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: Layn Rocks, Guns N Roses Slash, Slash, Youth Homelessness Awareness Month, Causecast Music, Youth Homelessness, Causecast, George Lopez, Impact News

Slash and friends join forces to battle youth homelessness in Los Angeles during the Los Angeles Youth Network (LAYN) Rocks! benefit concert November ...

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Youth Homelessness: A Real Problem That Ignoring Won't Fix

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: Standup for Kids, Diane Watson, Arianna Huffington, Youth Homelessness Awareness Month, Crystal Stairs, Youth Homelessness, Impact News
Jonathan Daniel Harris

America is home to 1.3 million homeless children, over 12,000 of them in Los Angeles county alone. It's time to stop attributing this problem to irresponsibility and start attacking the source.

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Denver Youth Shelter Aims to Prevent Adult Homelessness

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact

Read More: Youth Shelter, Shelter, Homelessness, Housing, Runaways, Youth Homelessness, Homeless Shelters, Urban Peak, Impact News

With the rise in youth homelessness, it is more important than ever that shelters and resources are available to take in runaways and kids displaced b...

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National Youth Homelessness Awareness Month: Ways To Get Involved

Causecast | Claire Dalton | Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact

Read More: Standup for Kids, Homelessness, Heartfelt Foundation, November, Youth Homelessness Awareness Month, Youth Homelessness, Impact News

A version of this article originally appeared on Causecast.org. This month is National Youth Homelessness Awareness Month, and it has come not a mome...

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The Life Of A Youth Runaway

The New York Times | Ian Urbina | Posted 10.26.2009 | Impact

Read More: Juvenile Justice System, Homelessness, Runaways, Youth Homelessness, Impact News

The New York Times: Over the past two years, government officials and experts have seen an increasing number of children leave home for life on the s...

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Homeless Under Las Vegas: Ways You Can Help

Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact

Read More: Homeless, Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360, Helping the Homeless, Homelessness, Las Vegas, Youth Homelessness, Impact News

In the flood channels under the streets of Las Vegas exists a troubling world: homeless and unemployed people live in elaborate shelters, struggling t...

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Ending Youth Homelessness: How HuffPost Readers Can Get Involved

The Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Homeless, Homelessness, Virgin Mobile Freefest, Arianna Huffington, Home Foreclosures, Youth Homelessness, Impact News

Last month, the Virgin Mobile FreeFest brought tens of thousands of people out to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, to help end youth ...

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Virgin Mobile's FreeFest Aims to End Youth Homelessness

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Virgin Mobile, Causecast, Text2donate, Youth, Homelessness, The Regeneration, Youth Homelessness, Living News
Jonathan Daniel Harris

Two of the hardest things to accomplish in modern-day America are getting something for free and engaging young people in giving back to their communities.

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