Thank you to Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona (JCF) for stopping by our office! The JCF awarded two YOTO students with the Noah Warren Cohen Scholarship – a memorial scholarship fund established by the Cohen family to honor Noah who passed away in 2010 at the age of 12. Noah was a young man with [...]
As homeless people cleared their belongings from the Downtown encampment called “Safe Park” over the weekend, youth homelessness in Arizona still stands among the highest in the nation. A young man sits outside the Joel D. Valdez Main Library in downtown Tucson smoking a cigarette, listening to music and charging his iPod in one [...]
Supporters of Youth on Their Own want to make it clear that homeless youths trying to stay in school and graduate don’t have to go it alone. The group, which provides financial assistance, basic human needs and guidance to facilitate the graduation of homeless youths, is hoping Tucsonans will turn out to help students [...]
The Homeless Children and Youth Act, a bill that would make the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) current definition of homelessness more inclusive toward America’s homeless youth population, has recently been re-introduced to Congress. The bill would make it easier for youth already considered homeless by other federal agencies to qualify for [...]
WASHINGTON – The nation’s public school systems are being affected by the number of homeless children, which a report says is on the rise. The report ranked states on how well they did at keeping children in school and their efforts to do better. The number of homeless children rose by 56 percent, from [...]
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) – Thanks to the Trico Electric Cooperative POWER Grant program seven non-profits in Tucson, Marana, Sahuarita and Green Valley received a boost to their operating funds. Each agency provides critical services to the communities most vulnerable people, children. A story from Tucson News Now. Read on.
Pima County is using a new computer program to help connect homeless people with housing and other services, and officials say it will change the metro area’s approach to ending homelessness. The new system evaluates a homeless person’s specific needs with questions such as how often he or she has been without permanent housing, [...]
On Katie Jeffery’s seventeenth birthday, her mom kicked her out of the house—She then spent four months living on the streets of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Jeffery stayed in hotels, friends’ places, cars, even a shed for a couple of weeks. All the while, she worked to finish up her final year of high school. “Worst [...]
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) – People of all faiths gathered at Evergreen Cemetery’s Pima County lot to remember and pray for the more than 250 people who died homeless in Southern Arizona’s streets and deserts this year. Peggy Hutchison, CEO of the Primavera Foundation, said Friday afternoon that it’s important to hold such [...]
TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) – Homeless people are a familiar sight in some parts of Tucson, but you might be surprised to find out how many children live on the streets. The state reports that there are more than 6,000 homeless or runaway youth in Pima County. Another 1,000 are not in school. [...]