Although home displacement among minors is often temporary, risks that long-lasting cycles of homelessness rise quickly when students are unable to find safe places accessible to their schools and local support systems. Tiredness, desperation, and lack of acceptable alternatives within communities lead youth to live in unsafe or compromised situations.
Incidents of student home loss tend to be sporadic, short-lived, and widely dispersed geographically across metro areas. As a result, emergency shelters are often impractical to operate permanently in neighborhoods outside of densely populated downtown areas. In the suburbs, student needs for nearby shelter often go unmet.
We have received licensing from the state of Minnesota to begin offering temporary emergency lodging spaces within facilities operated by local worship communities. Our goal is to ensure that students in crisis can be immediately offered safe places to stay in their own communities, preempting their need to make unsafe temporary living choices.
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