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Understanding Homelessness |
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 HEAR US knows homelessness comes in many forms. It affects children, youth and adults in every part of the country.
Over 1.5 million children endure homelessness in the U.S. Millions of hard-to-count youth also experience homelessness.
Photo (C) Pat Van Doren
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Because children and youth have been largely overlooked in the past decades of "modern" homelessness, HEAR US calls attention to their plight.
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| This does not diminish the value and needs of the single adult population. It's a humble attempt to level the playing field in the minds of the public and policymakers. |
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| Diane's book, Crossing the Line: Taking Steps to End Homelessness, illustrates her concern for the adult homeless population. |
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Before this country can make significant progress addressing homelessness, people need to know something about the extent of this issue.
Since homeless children and unaccompanied youth are often invisible, many people don't even know we have the problem. We do, in every community across the land.
HEAR US exists to give voice and visibility to homeless children and youth. We are the instrument that provides an opportunity for children/youth and families experiencing homeless to speak on their own behalf.
HEAR US offers several tools (order form) to develop awareness and sensitivity to the over 1.5 million homeless children in this country:
Thanks for your interest in homeless children and youth, and for visiting our website!
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HEAR US. Now more than ever, this unconventional effort is essential. If homeless children, youth and families lose their voice and visibility, their plight will be even more dire, an unthinkable option.
My promise to each of the kids I interviewed on my first trip: I would make sure their voices are heard and their faces seen by as many people as possible. That is happening. Audiences from Congress to California are inspired and disturbed by the first HEAR US documentary series, My Own Four Walls.
Our new film, On the Edge, also promises to upend traditional thinking about homelessness, challenging status quo, demanding solutions.
HEAR US continues to be a vital force in the effort to give homeless kids and families voice and visibility—to ensure the realization by our nation’s leaders of the tremendous resource that these young people represent, and to urge implementation of short and long-term solutions.
HEAR US produces a monthly E-newsletter available FREE! This newsletter provides information on our efforts around the country in addition to ways you can help bring light to the U. S. homelessness issue.
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Understanding Homelessness
