A conference at Stetson University addressed the increasing issue of poverty and homelessness, focusing on the connection to human trafficking. Human trafficking is a lucrative criminal enterprise, ...

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While most children focus on lessons and play during school hours, tens of thousands in California carry the hidden weight of housing insecurity with them every day. I work at LifeMoves, which ...

Politically savvy Brooklyn fourth-graders are joining forces with the nonprofit group Coalition for the Homeless to fight for better housing conditions for their peers. On June 2, members of Kids for ...

Homelessness and housing instability among children “can have a disproportionate effect over the rest of their lives,” says this nonprofit’s executive director Family Promise of Hawai‘i is dedicated ...

Teacher Herb Hickey holds a baby while she drinks from a bottle. Hickey has worked at the nonprofit Horizons for Homeless Children in Massachusetts for 13 years and frequently sees infants who are ...

Homelessness hits harder when you're young. For high school senior Morgan Keller, she said she became homeless after experiencing abuse by her father. "I had come home from school one day, and my dad ...