1. Amie Little EDU644 Discussion 2 week A tale of Two Cities

2. Youth homelessness in Chicago: Of the 25,000 Illinois youth who are homeless 9,000 are in the Chicago area. Have little or no positive interaction with adults Go hungry at twice the rate of other children Have experienced abuse and neglect with the stress associated with the loss of their home safety and sense of security In Chicago alone on any given evening there are 6,200 people who do not Know where they are going to sleep

3. Chicago Cont’d Supports : America Works www.americaworks.orgwww.americaworks.org APNA GHAR www.apnaghar.orgwww.apnaghar.org A Safe Haven Foundation www.asafehaven.comwww.asafehaven.com Catholic Charities www.catholiccharities.netwww.catholiccharities.net Policies Supporting Homelessness: “Giving Hope” Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, 2011 “Results of 2007 Survey of unaccompanied Homeless Youth Providers” Jessica Falk 2007 Unaccompanied Homeless Youth of Illinois 2005 – Timothy P. Johnson & Ingrid Graft, 2005

4. New York Youth Homelessness in New York: In New York City, nearly 20,000 homeless people 24 years or younger live in New York City. Children under 18 are accounted for 39% of the homeless population, of that Number approximately 42% were younger than age 5 Approximately 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBT Every year approximately 5,000 homeless young people will die because of assult, Illness, or suicide while trying to survive Support: Covenant Center Safe Horizon Crisis center Street Outreach Health Services Pastoral Services Mother & Child Programs

5. New York Cont’d Policies: Gift Acceptance Policy Online Community Policy

6. Interesting information: Information that I learned from reading about homelessness was that there are to many homeless children in the United States. Children should not have to deal with being homeless and trying to make it on their own.

7. Resources Covenant House. (2014). Helping homeless kids in New York. Retrieved from http://www.covenanthouse.org/homeless-charity/new-yorkHelping homeless kids in New York http://www.covenanthouse.org/homeless-charity/new-york All Chicago (http://www.allchicago.org/division/chicago-alliance) All Chicago http://www.allchicago.org/division/chicago-alliance Safe Horizon. (2014). Homeless youth statistics & facts. Retrieved from http://www.safehorizon.org/page/streetwork-homeless-youth-facts-69.html Homeless youth statistics & facts Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. (2014). No youth alone. Retrieved from http://www.chicagohomeless.org/programs-campaigns/advocacy-public- policy/no-youth-alone /No youth alone