Runaway, Homeless Youth & Trafficking Prevention
I’m ask you to step up and be a leader on the Runaways, Homeless Youth, & Trafficking Prevention Act by reintroducing it in the 117th Congress. This bipartisan bill, if reintroduced, reauthorizes, expands and improves the decades old framework for protecting and supporting the vulnerable young people across urban, suburban, rural and tribal communities across this country. By the time they wind up on the streets, homeless youth have already been failed by our systems and people who were supposed to help keep them safe. Some have left homes disrupted by addiction or they felt unsafe or faced other family challenges or have reached aged limit of the foster care system. Many have not gotten the help they needed from the child welfare system and are just in survival mode, while lacking the basic necessities of life, a safe place to live, regular sourc...