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homelessness and runaway youth  

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  • Homelessness among adolescents is a growing concern across the United States, where adolescents make up about a quarter of all the homeless. Conservative estimates suggest that between 500,000 and 1 million adolescents run away from home each year, and that in any given year between 1 and 1.5 million spend some period of time in emergency shelters or on the streets (Robertson, 1992). [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Homelessness and Runaway Youth]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JWH2TJQ9-0

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