Although it’s been happening for years, the Arizona Department of Child Safety began keeping records of the homeless children sleeping in state-operated buildings just last month. And what they found is troubling. A story from the Huffington Post. Read on.
Sudsville 24-Hour Coin Laundry sits on the main drag of Reisterstown, Md., right off I-795 in the northern suburbs of Baltimore. The low-slung building, framed by fast-food joints, gas stations and strip malls, is filled wall-to-wall with washers, driers, change dispensers, vending machines and overhead TV monitors tuned to the local news. For Isaiah [...]
It was somewhere between leaving her mother’s Arizona house and walking toward the bus stop that the frightening reality sank in: Amber Hough was now homeless. Hough’s post-traumatic stress disorder and autism were causing “too much drama” for her mother and siblings. The arguments were getting louder, and the crying all the more common. [...]
Some of Arizona’s university students will get a taste of real-world experience this weekend, all while helping those in need. The group of about 70 students from Arizona’s three public universities — Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and University of Arizona — are part of a group called the Student Health Outreach for [...]
How high school dropouts affect 7 Arizona cities Gilbert educators say flexible schooling options are a must to decrease the number of dropouts, which a recent report estimated cost the town about $139 million in lifetime economic losses. The report from Arizona mayors notes 11.3 percent of students living in Gilbert drop out of [...]
Arizona has a growing problem of children being displaced from their homes and thrust into a world of uncertainty, which can have long-term negative effects on their development and on the community. “Over the last five years the numbers of identified students has continued to rise,” said Frank Migali, Arizona’s coordinator for homeless and [...]
Teresa Liverzani-Baker, Executive Director of Youth On Their Own, and Mike Di Christofano, Owner of Volvo Tucson, thank Manheim for their generous support of Youth On Their Own! From left to right: Jessie Gomez (TRA), Blaza Carbajal, Mike, Teresa, Kelly Chenoweth, Gayle Sams, Michael Cleveland, Troy Miley, Bianca Erdmann, Rachel [...]
According to a new report by the Arizona Mayors Education Roundtable, the more than 18,000 Arizona students who dropped out of high school this year will produce $7.6 billion less economic activity over their lifetimes than if those same students had graduated. The report finds that cutting the dropout rate in half would generate [...]
Open Inn, an Arizona organization providing services and crisis shelter to Tucson’s homeless youths and families, is closing after 40 years. The announcement falls as the need for services continues to rise here. One in 3 Tucson youths under the age of 18 lives in poverty. Statewide, the rate is 1 in 4 and [...]
No youth and family services organization works alone, so the Tucson-area youth-serving community reacted with concern in March upon hearing that Open Inn, a local runaway and homeless youth program, was closing its doors. “The closing of Open Inn is definitely going to affect southern Arizona,” says Teresa Liverzani-Baker, executive director of Youth on Their [...]