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 ...

Read more about local philanthropic efforts in the Year-end Giving Guide. It’s human nature to crave a sense of community and belonging — and this is certainly true of children as well as adults. When ...

Cuts in federal spending by the Trump Administration could create a ripple effect that will be felt across the entire state of Pennsylvania, including here in Pittsburgh. Now, one Pittsburgh ...

Child and youth homelessness in Pennsylvania has grown to crisis proportions over the past few years, with 46,714 children and youth identified as homeless in 2023. Despite this unprecedented increase ...

Imagine a child starting their school day exhausted, not because of a late-night study session but because they spent the night in a car. For tens of thousands of children, this is not just a bad day; ...

TESTING. WE ARE GETTING OUR FIRST REPORT ON HOMELESSNESS IN CENTRAL FLORIDA SINCE A STATE LAW BANNING PUBLIC CAMPING WENT INTO EFFECT. AS WESH TWO’S JUSTIN SCHECKER TELLS US, A NEW SURVEY FOUND MORE ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va (Nexstar Media Wire) – On February 8, WV KIDS COUNT released an Issue Brief on the rising numbers of children and youth experiencing homelessness across the state of West Virginia.

Ashanti Jones-Moore waited to cry until her children were asleep. For them, she had to stay strong. They were her “whys,” her reasons to push forward, even though they had ended up at an overnight ...

Three-year-old twins Harper and Harlow are throwing stuffed animals up in the air for their mom, Nichole Babbitt, to catch. At 40, Babbitt is fully present in their lives. It's a gift she has given ...

The homeless paradox is an unseen but chaotic dilemma. Homeless citizens in our communities, states and country live in unregulated shelters, motels, streets and alleys. These circumstances ...

BRATTLEBORO — As eligibility for participating in Vermont's emergency motel housing program tightened in April and July, agencies and the town looked to blunt the impact. Individuals leaving the ...

As the sun rose Tuesday, Robert Robinson pulled himself from the sidewalk outside Fort Lauderdale’s bus depot. It’s where he’d slept — and become a violator of Florida’s newest law. Under a statute ...