Word: outreaching
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Runaways. Some are missing, their earnest young portraits splashed across flyers distributed by desperate parents. Many aren't missed at all. Most youths simply exchange one hell for another. Says Roger Hernandez, outreach coordinator for the Larkin Street Youth Center in San Francisco: "You can literally watch them age, week by week." And die. Living on the streets and on society's margins, runaways are the most vulnerable to the pestilences that kill America's teens: alcoholism, drugs, AIDS, homicide. About 20% of new cases of AIDS are among young adults in their 20s. Given the virus' latency period, that...
...Angeles Free Clinic, former runaways are employed to work the streets, offering help, defusing tensions and trying to rescue the newcomers. "You can tell them by their clean shoes and backpacks and that scared look on their faces," says an outreach worker named Seven. In San Francisco, the Larkin Street Youth Center served 2,000 teenagers last year, 80% of them from out of town. Once the youths are lured in the door by free food, a friendly atmosphere and a no-questions-asked policy, counselors try to find them shelters, drug treatment and job training. More than...
...Georgia Tech students are deeply involved in the initiative. In classes, the students are helping to plan traffic direction for the Games, computer systems to coordinate events, and community outreach efforts...
...resources will also likely become available this year--including a proposed student outreach organization--filling some voids in the Harvard support structure...
...Kaplan is now trying to found a group to do outreach on the issue around the campus...