"The city's homeless count last May showed there were 154 homeless youths between the ages of 13 and 17 - up from 56 counted six years earlier. There were another 327 homeless people between the ages of 18 to 24. One of the shelters, Avenue 15, which caters to 12- to 19-year-olds, served 838 different clients between July 2007 [and] June 2008."While part of the increased is attributed to a rise in the city's general population, experts are concerned that more young people are running away from foster care and group homes. Many young people will go to shelters when they need to, but others choose to stay on the streets, regardless of the dangers they face there. Source: Calgary Herald
Labels: homelessness, runaways
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