“Schools, because children are their clients, can hone in on children as people,” said Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, which advocates nationally for homeless youth policy. Teachers can recognize signs of unstable housing: children falling asleep at their desk, poor ...
the term is applied to people who “sleep rough” (i.e., outdoors in an area they do not own or rent) and to people who reside in very short-term housing intended for those who are otherwise homeless. It can also be applied to people who have insecure housing, such as those residing...
in some categories, particularly in youth, we saw a decrease in these numbers. And I think that’s, uh, demonstrates that where we’ve focused our efforts on chronic homelessness in, uh, in the years leading up to this study, they’ve been effect ...
Eleven years later, the debut of the stylish Ford Mustang, the brainchild of legendary automotive visionary Lee Iacocca, was an industry nod to the emerging mobile youth culture of the 1960s. Both the Vette and the Mustang would be reintroduced to the public with great fanfare. Here is a ...
The conversation has only just begun, the work to help and serve the poor and homeless is a continual mission in Ocean County, the Jersey Shore and beyond. According to the Monarch Housing Associates study, there was about 344 people a night, on average in 2020, experiencing homelessness in...
It is important to note that these numbers do not account for the hidden homeless - with Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, women, youth, and 2SLGBTQ+ people underrepresented in the statistics as they are more likely to be part of the hidden homeless (Braimoh et al., 2023; Harter et...
Oklahoma spends quite a bit of time talking about why we don't like everywhere else. Like Sooner fans and people in Southern OK talk trash on Texas, Northern OK hates Kansas, Eastern OK isn't fond of Arkansas, etc... but what about our own state?
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Washington and Massachusetts ranked first and second on the list, with California and Connecticut tying for third. The lowest ranking states are South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas and Wyoming. The report found that even in the top-ranked states, there’s room for improvement in the availability of...