Today homeless youth is the highest percentage of homeless people in the United States. It is estimated that there are approximately one million three hundred thousand to one million six hundred thousand homeless people between the ages of eighteen and twenty four. Homeless youth are at a higher risk for physical abuse, sexual exploitation, mental health disabilities, substance abuse, and death. Around five thousand unaccompanied youth die each year as a result of assault, illness, or suicide in…
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