The National Coalition for the Homeless and the Ali Forney Center have joined together to launch the National Campaign for Youth Shelter, a collaboration that will build a grassroots campaign to demand a national response to youth homelessness.
On Monday, June 2nd the National Campaign for Youth Shelter will hold a rally in New York City to launch the campaign as a priority within the LGBT movement. LGBT youth are disproportionately over-represented in the homeless youth population, with as ma...
The National Coalition for the Homeless and the Ali Forney Center have joined together to launch the National Campaign for Youth Shelter, a collaboration that will build a grassroots campaign to demand a national response to youth homelessness.
On Monday, June 2nd the National Campaign for Youth Shelter will hold a rally in New York City to launch the campaign as a priority within the LGBT movement. LGBT youth are disproportionately over-represented in the homeless youth population, with as many as 40% of the nation's homeless youth being LGBT, while only 5% of the overall youth population is LGBT.
Currently, there are only approximately 4,000 youth shelter beds in the United States, yet as many as 500,000 unaccompanied youths experience homelessness each year.
Endorsing Organizations for the National Campaign for Youth Shelter:
• Ali Forney Center
• Alliance for a Just Society
• Bailey House
• Campaign for America's Future
• Campus Pride
• Child Welfare League of America
• Center for Community Change
• Center for Popular Democracy
• CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers
• Coalition for the Homeless
• Coalition on Human Needs
• Congregation Beit Simchat Torah
• Covenant House
• Coalition for Homeless Youth
• Empire State Pride Agenda
• Everything Transgender in NYC
• Family Acceptance Project
• Family Equality Council
• Gay Men's Health Crisis
• Garden State Equality
• GetEQUAL
• GLAAD
• GLSEN
• Harlem United
• Hetrick Martin Institute
• Housing Assistance Council
• It Gets Better Project
• League of United Latin American Citizens
• LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent
• Matthew Shepard Foundation
• Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
• National AIDS Housing Coalition
• National Black Justice Coalition
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• National Domestic Workers Alliance
• National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
• NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
• Partnership for Working Families
• Rebuild the Dream
• Ruth Ellis Center
• Safe Horizon
• Shelter of Peace
• Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth
• Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Treatment Action Group
• USAction
• You Can Play Project
• Young Invincibles
http://www.nationalcampaignforyouthshelter.org