Contest to End Youth Homelessness

A video explanation of the "Out Of The Shadows" Contest to end Youth Homelessness. Find out what you can do to address the problem and to win some cool prizes.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Youth
• Homelessness
• Teen

[paddedshell]

I seemed to be a neighborhood mom when my son was a teen. he brought home a lot of the kids who were "kicked out". Some needed more help than I could give them but most just need someone to listen. Sick, throw-away society... right down to disposable kids. Was shocked and enraged when CPS told me I could be arrested for housing "run-aways". Remember, we are all a product of our environment.

[karnivalklownsdizzy]

.......i think that bush should worry more about problems in america then to try to help iraq wich they prolly dont wan our help i say we need to better ourselves before we can better them but hey thats just me.......

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[flixmsncom]

Go proletarian I should say.

people and especially those with 'street' experience are perfectly capable of making their own living from simple resources. I know I could, but I grew up on a countryside.

If properly organized (by me perhaps) and funded, this could be a good idea.

not only for homeless people.

[brysonz]

No thanks. Having alcohol addiction makes it tough to find a job. I could easily have alcohol addiction but I choose not to. I am sure others are forced into alcohol addiction. We now know it is a disease and it really urks me when funding for alcoholics takes funding from real disease like cancer and aids research. The cure for alcoholics? Don't buy the alcohol. It's not a disease.

[RLF777]

Sounds like a Great Contest~

[jrjollyroger]

Homeless problems are just beginning. It is unlikely to just end, but in the meantime the citizens who have been increasingly become victimized by the economy, have to stop being victimized additionally by injustices being inflicted on them while trying to survive within their means!

[disidemon]

DIE

[famousin8]

tired of begging for a job.after 2 months i am hittin the streets where it is easier.i am a buddhist.fuck people and possessions.they dont stay around anyway.dust in the wind.

[lovursi]

Don't have time now to read the comments but I will. Nextdoor is a shelter home, been living here for 27 years; in the last 3 years pushers have been part of the 'decor'; pusher fights, people going crazy night and day from an overdose (and because the 'shelter' close the door to them), the whole neighborhood is going through hell, cops stay away... This priest started a project: he drives his bus downtown at night, offers warm coffee to the homeless...etc. He built a new shelter too.

[YOUTHTRUTH]

What is needed is A genuine Out-reach AT LATE NIGHT EARLY MORNING by youth workers with I.D that can approach the young people and hear their story,and sit and chat with a cup of hot chocolate and a sub, To see if they want help and point them in the right direction,Housing that's affordable and clean/safe with workers to help the young people into an independent lifestyle. duh.

[jeremyserwer]

Great work, keep up the awareness.

[rafaelxperez]

To the extent that I became a social problem in the United States.....no. To the point where people must devote pointless efforts to my blunder. No. They made a mistake? Yeah, the first time they lit up that crack pipe. A lot of these kids RAN away from home, they aren't orphan annies.