Yakima Taylor at HomeFront's Huchet House

Video by Michael Mancuso for Do1Thing.org: Yakima Taylor, 18, seven month pregnant, ponders her future in the nursery at HomeFront's Huchet House, in Trenton, New Jersey, a place where family care workers and a parent educator focus on ensuring pregnant homeless women receive needed services like prenatal care and employment training. When asked how she got where she is now her only replay was " It's a long story. It has something to do with my dad."

Michael Mancuso has been developing his photographic eye since childhood, when he processed his own film and printed his own pictures in his father's home darkroom. His most recent past includes over twenty years as a full-time photojournalist, refining his skills daily, seamlessly flowing in and out of situations of all sorts, connecting with people of every description, growing in his ability to capture the fleeting moments embedded in daily life that tell a story.

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Produced by Michael Mancuso for the Do1Thing Project http://do1thing.org

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