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BCFS Health and Human Services (formerly Baptist Child and Family Services) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization based in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in emergency shelter, foster care, and adoption. It was founded as an orphanage for Hispanic children in 1944. [1]
In 2007, Urban Ministries was rebranded initially as San Antonio Family Endeavors with the scope of the organization covering supportive housing, job training, employment, case management, homeless prevention, group and individual counseling, and youth development services. [2]
Southwest Key first opened an immigrant shelter in the late 1990s. It now describes itself as "one of the largest providers of services to unaccompanied children in the U.S." [5] [10] As of mid-2018, it houses 5,100 immigrant children [11] and operates 26 immigrant youth facilities in Texas, Arizona, and California. [10]
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Elijah Hogan was just 8 years old when he lost his mother, and has spent the last year and half in the New Orleans Covenant House youth homeless shelter, according to WDSU News.
Homeless children sleeping in New York City, 1890. Photographed by Jacob Riis.. Youth homelessness is the problem of homelessness or housing insecurity amongst young people around the globe, extending beyond the absence of physical housing in most definitions and capturing familial instability, poor housing conditions, or future uncertainty (couch surfing, van living, hotels).
The Office of Homeless Youth (OHY) operates under the department, which will allocate funding for the Homeless Student Stability Program, and the new Community Support Teams and Protected ...
Huckleberry House was the first runaway shelter for youth in the US, [4] founded during the Summer of Love on June 18, 1967, by several churches and the San Francisco Foundation. [5] [6] Huckleberry House is operated by Huckleberry Youth Programs and is located at 1292 Page St. in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. [citation needed]