Runaway and Homeless Youth

Date: 08/11/2009 | Time: 11:05 | Size: 10.4 MB
Date: 09/04/2009 | Time: 10:01 | Size: 9.2 MB NCFY staff members shadow two Philadelphia street outreach workers who make contact with runaway and homeless youth and link them to services.  
Youth-serving professionals and researchers who work with runaway and homeless youth agree that knowing something about the culture and reality of young people is helpful to getting youth off the streets, into programs that can help them and into stable housing. But runaway and homeless youth are a notoriously difficult population to track, and research to date has painted an...
“Before I took this job, I wasn’t aware that Billings, Montana, had a population of homeless youth,” says Tracie Musso, street outreach program coordinator at the city’s Tumblewood Runaway Program. A former teacher, Musso says she learned on the job how to work with homeless youth. Here’s what she and others told us:
Assessment and screening are among the first steps in treating adolescents in at-risk situations, including runaway and homeless youth. When a young person comes to you for help, you need to know:  Does the young person suffer from mental health problems? Does he or she abuse drugs or alcohol? How well does the youth make everyday decisions? In order to answer these questions and to...
In this five-part series, we spoke with staff and young people living and working in programs that have received grants from the Family and Youth Services Bureau. Some are Tribal organizations; others are non-tribal entities that serve a large number of Native youth. Here’s what Danny, a 19-year-old resident of Ain Dah Yung Transitional Living Program, in St. Paul, MN, had to say:
In this five-part series, we spoke with staff and young people living and working in programs that have received grants from the Family and Youth Services Bureau. Some are Tribal organizations; others are non-tribal entities that serve a large number of Native youth. Here’s what Betty Frog, a resident assistant at the Cherokee Nation Youth Shelter in Tahlequah, OK, had to say about what her...
A former runaway and her father discuss her struggles with drug use and childhood abuse and the relationships that helped them both recover. Time: 6:48 | Size: 4 MB | Transcript
In this five-part series, we spoke with staff and young people living and working in programs that have received grants from the Family and Youth Services Bureau. Some are Tribal organizations; others are non-tribal entities that serve a large number of Native youth. Here’s what Sarah Finnell, a street outreach worker for Fairbanks Counseling & Adoption in Fairbanks, AL, had to say:
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