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Foster Care Children Too Often Become Homeless Adults

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August 16, 2024
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The Safe Families dinner and Rob Henderson memoir I wrote about last month got me thinking more about "the relationship between foster care and homelessness": That's the title of a paper delivered at a 1996 conference hosted by the American Public Welfare Association and based on client files and case data from 21 homeless service organizations located in every region of the United States. Read More ›

little girl with paper family in hands. concept of divorce, custody and child abuse

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August 9, 2024
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences Turn into Homelessness

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August 9, 2024
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Would you rather be rich or loved? Many of us might want to be both, but Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, understands what's most important: "For happiness, it's better to be poor and loved than rich and unloved." Read More ›

young homeless boy crying on the bridge, poverty, city, street, negative emotion

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August 2, 2024
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Coming Out of Trouble

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August 2, 2024
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Rob Henderson's Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (Gallery Books, 2024) is well worth reading. I'll give you two reasons Henderson's life and book are not exceptional, then two reasons why they are. Read More ›

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July 26, 2024
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The Foster-Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline

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July 26, 2024
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Earlier this month I wrote about the regular Wednesday dinners for unhoused humans at the University Avenue church. This week I'll write about a Friday night fundraising dinner in a church gym four miles further north. The beneficiary: Safe Families for Children of Austin — one of a hundred Safe Family chapters in 30 states that try to keep children from having the traumatic experiences that contribute to the psychology of homelessness. Read More ›

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July 2, 2024
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Middle America Has a Lot to Teach us About Homelessness

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July 2, 2024
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In this episode, I’m joined by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Marvin Olasky who is the author of 29 books, the former editor of WORLD Magazine, and has spent the last year living in homeless programs across the U.S. to learn from the people living in them. We discuss the bias of West Coast journalism, what makes programs successful, and the stories Read More ›

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June 27, 2024
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Middle America Has a Lot to Teach us About Homelessness

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In this episode, I’m joined by author and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Marvin Olasky. We discuss the bias of West Coast journalism, what makes programs successful, and the stories of people Marvin has lived alongside. Read More ›

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June 7, 2024
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Beyond the “Vets, Pets, and Kids” View of Homelessness

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This column starts my third year of weekly writing about homelessness, with the goal of learning, teaching, and eventually turning the columns into a book. Both human interest and intellectual interest propel me. I'll start with the human interest and the two words "suffered enough." The expression comes to mind every time I live in a homeless shelter for a few days and ask residents about their pasts. Read More ›

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May 24, 2024
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Go West, Children: How Charles Brace Placed Orphans in Families

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May 24, 2024
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Last week I wrote about how Charles Brace set up homes for homeless children but did not see institutionalization as ideal. He wondered whether it was possible to find thousands of families willing to take responsibility for the children of the streets. The problem seemed enormous. Brace wrote: "How were places to be found? . . . And when the children were placed, how were their interests to be watched over, and acts of oppression or hard dealing prevented or punished?" Read More ›

In 1789 a charming five year old chimney sweep toiled through tough days in the bustling streets embodying the spirit of a spirited eighteenth century street urchin

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May 17, 2024
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Caring for Orphans in New York City

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May 17, 2024
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Two columns ago I mentioned Charles Brace's concern about high rents in New York City. When Brace founded the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, he began by setting up religious meetings aimed at orphaned or abandoned boys from 10 to 18 who slept in alleys. Read More ›

A pioneer family on the frontier, amidst a vast prairie, setting up their homestead, gazes towards a hopeful horizon.

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May 10, 2024
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Go West, Young Man (and Woman) | Fix Homelessness

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May 10, 2024
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We often think westward migration was for males only. In 1862 the Homestead Act allowed land claims from “any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years.” Women, including those widowed by the Civil War, made one third of all homestead claims. Some men and women who made it to the Midwest and went no further became homeless. Read More ›