Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

Transgender teen Ali Forney fled his home at age 13. Young people are hearing the positive message that it's OK to be gay and are coming out younger and at higher rates. He bounced from foster home to foster home before ultimately ending up on the streets. Forney was murdered in 1997.

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New York City Homeless Time New York 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. So they started a partnership with Arrow and campaign called “ Teens for Jeans.”. At DoSomething, they were getting text messages back from teens.

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Learning Teen El Paso Homeless 50

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. And that is shocking, and really points to the urgency of the issue.

People 43

People Podcast Oakland Local 43