A recent ABC News 20/20 piece humanizes the plight of homeless youth, specifically following Georege who became homeless in San Francisco:
“My mom called me and told me that I didn’t have any relatives in San Francisco and I was basically screwed,” he said…George arrived in San Francisco with $50 in his pocket. For his first two weeks there, he slept in a tree at a Golden Gate Park. It was safer, he said, than sleeping on the ground, where “a lot of people could tamper with you.”
George is now in private transitional housing provided by Larkin Street Youth Services. Watch here.
Source: Samantha Wender and Geoff Martz, “Nowhere to Go, Teen Lived in Tree,” ABC News, January 28, 2011
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- Top San Francisco Chef Hires Young Adults from Larkin Street Internship Program, Raises Money On Top of Teaching Youth to Cook
- Supervisor Jane Kim and Larkin Street’s Sherilyn Adams celebrate opening of Aarti Hotel to formerly homeless youth
- Interview with Ed Melendez, Director of Education & Employment at Larkin Street Youth Services
- Young Adult Voices: Interview w/ Shavonte Keaton, Prevention Services Coordinator, Larkin Street Youth Services
- ABC KGO-TV San Francisco’s “Beyond the Headlines” feautres John Burton, former foster youth, First Place for Youth, and others to speak on issues in foster care
