Artist/Vendor Ibn Hipps writes the second part of a series about two misunderstood children, encountering the trials and tribulations of growing up.
Content categorized as Youth
Mac & Jenny, Part 2: Unconditional Love
Xavier adventures with the urban challenge
Artist/Vendor experiences participating in the Xavier challenge, an event meant to expose university students to the experience of homelessness.
Children’s book facilitates discussion about homelessness and how to help
In “I See You”, a young boy observes the hardships of a homeless woman who seems invisible to everyone else, and returns her visibility through an act of compassion.
When You Young
Vendor and artist Reggie Jones shares a poem about youth and hope.
Mac and Jenny: Middle class and misunderstood
Mac meets Jenny while his mother talks to the principal about his troubles at school.
With DC General closed, this organization is bringing playtime to children in overflow family shelters
The Homeless Children’s Playtime Project gives children a chance to enjoy themselves while in a difficult situation.
Lilly, the first homeless Muppet, is returning to Sesame Street
Sesame Workshop announced on Dec. 12 that Lilly, Sesame Street’s first homeless Muppet, will be reintroduced on its show. The bilingual character is expected to teach young viewers empathy for those experiencing homelessness and food insecurity.
This website could help homeless youth in D.C. know their rights and resources
Youth experiencing homelessness often do not know about the resources available to them. Law firm Baker McKenzie, in partnership with Disney and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, is compiling all resources and rights available to homeless youth in one webpage using easy-to-understand language.
D.C.’s Cardinal Wuerl resigns amid more abuse allegations against Catholic Church
After a grand jury investigation revealed the details of ‘predator priests’ in Pennsylvania, with up to 1,000 victims affected, the attorney who helped the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team investigate clergy sex abuse says it’s only the beginning.
Metro Transit Police target Black youth for fare evasion, report says
The Washington Lawyers Committee recently released a report showing racial disparities in fare evasion enforcement by the Metro Transit Police.
D.C. Council stands up to Trump Administration’s attempt to eliminate LGBTQ health data collection
D.C. local government agrees upon LGBTQ health data collection, in opposition to Trump Administration’s attempt to eliminate it.
How we are learning about homelessness
Children learning about homelessness at Tenleytown Library.
Many people struggle to understand extreme poverty in America
Artist/Vendor James Davis recounts his experiences with foreign students in a homeless challenge program.
Who Will End Youth Homelessness?
Is life tough? Ask young people who are experiencing homelessness. On the first day of spring, despite heavy snow, I left for work at 5 a.m. to supervise our delivery crew unloading the latest edition of Street Sense. A few blocks away from the office, I saw a young man on the street, probably 14 years old, asking for money for breakfast. He is not alone in his circumstances. A 2017 study shows that there are 4.2 million adolescents and young adults in the U.S who are experiencing homelessness.
This young DC-area woman published a children’s book to spread messages of positivity
A’dora Willis, a 19-year-old alumna of D.C. SCORES, just published her first children’s book “He and Me: Little Nuggets for Bright Futures.” The book was inspired by the children Willis is surrounded by through her mother’s daycare and her continued work with students in D.C. SCORES.
Listen to the children!
To plan the murder of innocents in a sacred place is barbaric. (As a teacher, I consider all educational institutions sacred.) Their minds are on their lessons, friends, plans for lunch or what to wear to the party on Saturday night. Not one child is thinking “Someone is going to kill me today.” If they had thought that, I’m sure they would have stayed home.
D.C. schools expel and suspend poor students more often than their peers
The OSSE State of Discipline Report for the 2016-2017 school year showed that homeless and low-income students, black students, and students with disabilities are being suspended and expelled at higher rates than their peers. This comes after Chairperson of the Committee on Education David Grosso published his Student Fair Access to School Act of 2017, which would limit the use of suspensions and expulsions as disciplinary practices in district schools.
Oversight hearing on education highlights barriers for low-income students
Nearly 30 people testified Monday during the Committee on Education Performance Oversight Hearing led by Committee Chair David Grosso. District residents along with the Public Charter School Board and the Deputy Mayor for Education testified during the hearing.
This website will help D.C. homeless youth connect to resources
A website by Excella Consulting, intended to help homeless youth in Washington, D.C., connect to available support services was presented at the United States Census Bureau on Nov. 29.
You’re not smarter than a fifth grader
Ken Martin shares his experiences in homelessness with a class of fifth graders at National Presbyterian School
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