Sentences with phrase «homeless youth face»

Unaccompanied homeless youth face unique barriers in accessing financial aid.

-- «Higher education is a lasting path out of homelessness, yet homeless youth face barriers to accessing the financial aid they need to complete their college education,» said Barbara Duffield, director of policy and programs at the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.

Not exact matches

«Homeless LGBT youth, most of whom have been cast out of their homes, have faced the worst kind of cruelty and rejection», said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the Ali Forney Center, in a statement.

A recent study in 2014 showed that foster youths who emancipate from the system faced the following: 20 % will become homeless, 71 % will become pregnant, and 25 % will experience PTSD (twice the amount of US war veterans).

In the process, this film encourages audiences to reexamine stereotypes about homelessness and consider the realities and challenges faced by homeless youth in America today.

The McKinney - Vento Program addresses the problems that homeless children and youth face in enrolling, attending, and succeeding in school.

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Hand2Paw was started as a program in 2009 by a 19 year old Penn student who was shocked to learn of the shared plight facing homeless youth and shelter animals in Philadelphia.

I don't believe that that is true for any of the world's problems that we face and I can prove that is not true for shelter animals or homeless youth.

The CSI has teamed up with the About Face Collective, SKETCH: Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth and Skate4Cancer to make the dream a reality: the «Everything Roof.»

This new initiative encourages programs to expand eligibility and service criteria by ensuring programs are either equipped to address the issues facing homeless youth or able to refer those cases to partners in the network.