Satires About Homeless

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Imagine being homeless, if you’ve been lucky enough to not endure that suffering. Think about it. Your home is no longer yours. Your family is no longer there. Now you have to find a new home to temporarily lay your head at night, like a homeless shelter which you share with complete strangers of varying ages and mental stability, or an abandoned building where you constantly worry if and when you’ll get caught, or even a sidewalk with cars passing by, the cold cement beneath you, and utter fear someone is out there to harm you. That’s not all, you have to find the basic human needs like food, water, and shelter that were once bestowed upon you. You try to juggle the physical pain you labor to find those needs and emotional pain that you are alone. This isn’t just a fictional tale to make you feel bad about the homeless, this is real. Teenagers are going through this right now and much, much worse situations.
Homeless youth, sometimes referred to as unaccompanied youth, are individuals who lack parental, foster or institutional care.
Reason for concern- The National Runaway Switchboard estimates that on any given night there are approximately 1.3 million homeless youth living unsupervised on the
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Understand who the homeless are, educate yourself about the homeless (homeless person may be someone who lost their job, a runaway child, or someone with a mental illness), respect the homeless as individuals, respond with kindness (we can make quite a difference in the lives of the homeless when we respond to them, rather than ignore or dismiss them). States have adopted a variety of policies to combat youth homelessness. Some of these policies address the educational needs of homeless and runaway youth while others appropriate money for shelters and transitional housing. Other policies include counseling and outreach services to already homeless youth or youth at risk of becoming