Sentences with phrase «youth shelters because»

«It's unconscionable that thousands of New York kids each year are turned away from homeless youth shelters because there aren't enough beds.

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«One of the most gruesome things we hear at the Ali Forney Center is our young people who have been recently diagnosed in their desperation to get shelter and housing will forsake taking the medication because they want to be eligible for the current HASA guidelines,» said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the group, which helps homeless LGBT youth.

For the 20 years that I have been working with homeless youth in NYC, it has always been accepted as a given by city government that many homeless youth must sleep on the streets because of an inadequate youth shelter supply to meet the need.

Parents of youth with internalizing and externalizing behaviors, substance use and abuse, delinquency, police arrests, out - of - home placements, and deviant peer association; parents who are depressed, highly stressed, living in poverty or high - crime neighborhoods, Spanish - speaking immigrants, parents returning from wars (e.g., Iraq / Afghanistan) who may be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mothers living in shelters or supportive housing because of homelessness or domestic violence, birth parents whose children are in care because of abuse / neglect, and family with transitions such as divorce, single parenting, and step - families

Most unaccompanied youth are unable to access safe housing or shelter, for a combination of reasons, including: being too young to consent for services without a parent; fear of child welfare involvement; and the lack of services overall: more than half of those who seek shelter can not access it because shelters are full.