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Inside the lives of homeless teens - moving experiences of pain and hope from Covenant House. Almost Home explains to the experiences of six exceptional young people from across the USA and Canada as they confront life alone on the roadways. Each eventually confirms his or her way to Covenant House, the most significant charity portion homeless and runaway young ones in North America. From the kid of a split addict who fights his own descent into medicine addiction, to a teenager mother getting for a new life, their experiences veer between devastating and motivating as they each struggle to find a location called home. This e book:

• Includes a foreword by Newark Mayor Cory Booker
• Stocks the personal experiences of six homeless youths grappling with issues such as medicine addiction, family violence, prostitution, rejection predicated on sexual orientation, young parenthood, and maturing out of foster treatment into another with limited skills no support system
• Gives tone to the estimated 1.6 million young people in the United States and Canada who try to escape or are kicked out of these homes each year
• Includes experiences of firsthand encounters mentoring and working with homeless and troubled youth, and useful suggestions on getting involved
• Discusses the main causes of homelessness among young people - and policy recommendations to address them
• Provides action steps listeners may take to fight young ones homelessness and assist specific homeless young people

Written by Kevin Ryan, leader of Covenant House, and Pulitzer Prize nominee and past New York Times copy writer Tina Kelley, Almost Home invites us to get to know homeless teens as more than an accumulation of information and societal issues. This e book gives a human being face to an enormous but largely invisible problem and will be offering useful insights into preventing homelessness and help homeless young ones proceed to a hopeful future. For example, one child in the e book goes on to become a college football player and counselor to at-risk adolescents; another becomes circumstances kickboxing champion. All the stories encourage us with victories of the human being spirit, large and small.