Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like hundreds of other kids each year, she had run to Place Runaway House. Located at 402 Marlborough St. in Boston, Place House cares for more runaways than any other residential shelter in New England. For teenagers (both boys and girls, ages 13-17) who are being abused, who are having difficulties at home or school or who have some other problem that temporarily overwhelms them, Place is a refuge where they can overcome crises and begin to work out their problems...
...young people were not drifting just to San Francisco to become flower children. They flowed into many major cities. And not all were interested in politics and drugs but were running away from serious problems and needed help. Place House was founded in 1967, making it the second oldest shelter for runaways in the country...
Jackson says that Place House may be the only runaway shelter in the country with this kind of collective organization. We're fighters," she says. Place has fought to remain independent from the control of state social welfare systems which often have regulations requiring agencies to have an organizational hierarchy...
...1960s, emergency supplies of food, toilet paper, medicines and sodium bicarbonate were stashed in more than 10,000 subterranean fallout shelter throughout New York City to support the survivors of nuclear combat with the Soviet Union. That was, of course, quite reassuring to the people of New York...
...stumble out, most of us disheveled and collectively smelling as ripe as backpackers three days out, we learn that more than 300 people are al ready stranded here from all over the U.S. and Canada. The Emmanuel Baptist Church has opened its doors to offer shelter, and this morning the church ladies are dishing up a free hot meal in the auditorium. "When we realized there were no rooms at the motel and bad weather in all directions,"recalls Church Mem ber Russell Thrift, "we told the boy down at the gas station to let folks know they could stay...