Living on the street is no picnic. While it’s true that some youth seek the streets for adventure – and are derisively labelled “weekend warriors” or “twinkies: – and eventually return home, most street youth are there simply because there’s nowhere else to go. And on the street...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PGkRgrPOXQ[/youtube] A look inside Touchstone Youth Centre in Toronto 1076 Pape Avenue (416) 696-6932...
Woman on a mission to help Reality much more complicated than stereotypes on the street, social worker says RAFAEL BRUSILOW FOR METRO CANADA November 12, 2008 Click here to view article...
When youth become homeless, they don’t all automatically end up sleeping on street grates or in doorways. In fact, they end up staying in a variety of places. A 1999 survey found that: 60% of street youth are staying in one of Toronto’s youth shelters 25% staying in...
People become homeless for a wide variety of reasons – loss of job, marital breakdown, mental illness and alcohol and drug addiction. But when it comes to youth and children, the reasons tend to revolve around the family. Missing child reports: In 2003 in Canada, there were a...
A poem by Merlisa Pierre, aka “ROMEO” No Place No home Being disowned I think i might have to go to a dome Spend the night doing a double Then i see my peoples caught up in the same trouble Society looks down on us, Because we got...
My name is Anthony. Touchstone has help me in so many ways that nobody has in my life. When I was hungry, I was fed, when I was tired, I had a bed to sleep on, when I was sad or upset, they would turn my frown upside...
