Historic Jewish Orphanage is now a Teen Homeless Shelter

Each year, more than 30,000 Minnesota youth find themselves unable to live at home. Since 1919, almost 3,000 of them have lived at a particular North Minneapolis building. When they leave, some return to their own families, some begin new chapters with foster families, colleges, or their own apartments. Some return to the streets.


From a Minnesota History Center exhibit titled "We couldn't live at home", co-sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest. The project, seeks to stimulate discussion about children and youth who live in foster care, in incarceration, in homeless shelters, couch-hopping and on the streets; the young people who "couldn't live at home". Curated by Kate Searls, founder of The Sheltering Home Chronicles.

For more information on the exhibit visit:
http://www.jhsum.org
http://events.mnhs.org/calendar/Results.cfm?EventID=3092

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