 If you all looked at me, you couldn't tell that I was ever homeless, but I was. I aged out of foster care. Now here, I get off a school bus with a basketball uniform on. Go to the house happy because we won the game, and here's two trash bags full of clothes. Where am I supposed to go at 7.30 at night? So many of our kids will just walk up to our house and they'll knock on the door and we'll open it up and we greet them. We want to make sure that you're okay, that you've eaten, that you just kind of decompress from the stress and struggles that you've had. So I came here and I just walked in and I mean I just remember like meeting like Kat and she was just like an angel. Like it was just like, like a halo. And when she opened the door for me. These youths are coming directly off the street. So we provide them with their beds, their beddings, they have their closets and then they come in and the longer they're here, they make it theirs, they make it unique to them. We'll get items donated like TVs for them to have in their rooms. Sometimes they'll put up items on the walls. This one says, my next being is my next great. These kids are sleeping in cars, they're sleeping in numerous locations. They may not be as visible, but the numbers are big and they're still there. I never really slept when I was on the streets. And it gets cold, like really cold at night. Like you can't even sleep because it's so cold. I didn't know what to do. I was literally crying. Like I didn't know where to go, like what to do. Like possibly like harm you. Like come kill you while you're asleep, you know? I think there's a different type of homelessness during the day. It's at night. At night it goes up a whole other stress level. It's been a lot harder to attach to some youth, especially because, you know, coming from different backgrounds, some youth aren't particularly comfortable with males. I've noticed, especially in LAYN, since a lot of, you know, their previous abuse really falls back on, you know, a male figure, whether it's father, uncle, stepfather. Many of the youth that also went to our location enter our facility because they have been kicked out of their families due to their sexual orientation. We have a high percentage of our youth at our LGBT and our transgender youth as well. What this organization does is they've literally taken every, like, every insecurity that one has, like when going through homelessness, like they just take it away and like they provide for you. From everything like tampons, like LAYN's got you. Like, how do you tell them to talk to you? You go into this office. It does not matter what they have going on. You're going to get, like, four eyes. What do you want to do? You can be whoever you want to be here and, like, everyone's just so accepting and, like, it's just such a place to thrive. Like, someone can get the courage to, like, transition. Now, that's myself. When I was younger, who knew I would grow up to be transgender? That's not something that I knew. That's not something that I wanted to be when I was younger. I didn't say, hey, I want to grow up to be transgender. Like, we didn't wake up and you'd be like, oh, hey, I'm going to be homeless today. Like, this is fun. Let's do that. LAYN is proud to be part of that story, but the story is really about them and what they've done to transform their lives.