Letters from a Homeless Teen Series Part 4

If you were homeless and was asked to write about what was important to you, what would you write about? This series is one homeless teen’s point of view. Thanks for supporting homeless awareness and sensitivity.

Letters from a Homeless Teen Series Part 2

Letters from a homeless teen

Please share your thoughts about early entrepreneurship and enlightened mentorship as ideas for homeless prevention. Street newspapers are excellent micropreneurship opportunities. Teens can learn the ins and outs of sales and distribution and even move into writing and editing if the have a passion for the written word. Most teens I know love poetry and this could be their in.

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Using murals to battle youth homelessness – Philly.com

 

 

 

 

In Philadelphia, about a thousand children and young adults sleep in shelters every night. Even more hop from couch to couch, with no place to call home. They are part of an invisible homeless population – children and young adults who sleep on a cousin’s sofa or sneak into a friend’s bedroom at night.

When he left home as a teenager, Pedro moved into an apartment, only to get evicted and thrown out onto the street. “I felt like I was a burden to everybody,” he says. “I didn’t have any hope.” Pedro eventually learned about Covenant House, where he was able to find shelter and support.

Pedro is one of the many young people in Philadelphia who have struggled with homelessness, and whose jobs, education, and health can be compromised more

teen-homelessness-term-paper.pdf

Social scientists agree that changes in the family structure plays a major role in child outcomes. Divorce, separation, economic deprivation and parenting deficiencies are all factors that affect a child’s well-being. The tragedy however is that children are the most vulnerable of the human race. Like flowers in springtime, children need proper physical and emotional nutrients and to be sheltered from the cold in order to survive. When these basic needs are not met, a child is likely to experience emotion and physical dis-ease, which affects society as a whole. A subculture of deviant children arises and our culture as we know it has changed forever.

Click below to read the entire term paper.

teen-homelessness-term-paper.pdf (application/pdf Object).