Last session (2019), we helped pass a law that created a fund to pay for the costs of these documents, which are critical to obtaining housing, securing a job, and even enrolling in college.
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Youth who are homeless may bounce among school districts as their family looks for housing. That translates to 62,351, 13- to 17-year-olds and 294,353, 18- to 25-year-olds experiencing homelessness in Texas. Research released in a report by Chapin Hall in November 2017 estimates that each year nationwide 1 in 30 youth, ages 13 to 17 experience homelessness and 1 in 10 youth, ages 18 to 25 experience homelessness. During the 2014-2015 school year, Texas school districts identified 113,294 students as homeless - and that is a conservative number. According to the National Center for Homeless Education, Texas is home to approximately 10 percent of the country’s homeless youth and children. Homelessness is one of the threads that runs through many of Texas Appleseed’s projects, including juvenile and criminal justice reform, foster care reform, and our work dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline.
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The findings from the study point to an emerging theory, which suggests that ambiguous local policies relevant to homeless youth (e.g., trespassing, loitering) resulted in their selective enforcement by local security and police. In depth semi-structured interviews with 14 youth were conducted, and the data were transcribed and analyzed using a qualitative research computer program.
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This study examined the social construction of deviance in a sample of homeless and/or runaway youth in metropolitan Phoenix.
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Journal article citation:Ĭhild and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 25(5), October 2008, pp.425-441.