{"id":1258,"date":"2012-04-11T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rch.org.au\/blogs\/cah\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2012-04-11T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T03:20:07","slug":"youth-homelessness-matters-day-april-18-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2012\/04\/11\/youth-homelessness-matters-day-april-18-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Homelessness Matters Day April 18 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On any given night in Australia 105,000 people are homeless and nearly half of these are under the age of 25.<\/p>\n

Youth Homelessness Matters Day aims to raise public awareness about youth homelessness and celebrate the resilience of young people who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness in Australia.<\/p>\n

The majority of homeless young people generally experience secondary homelessness. This means that homeless young people are more likely to be:<\/p>\n

a young person in school who is sleeping on friends\u2019 couches and moving from friend to friend<\/p>\n

a young person in a youth shelter who is on income support; or<\/p>\n

a young person who is in an apprenticeship or traineeship who is living in a tent<\/p>\n

a young person or child who is accompanying a parent who is escaping domestic violence<\/p>\n

any young person who is living OUT OF HOME WITHOUT CARE<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026 young people do not choose homelessness<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Reality, many young people become homeless due to family breakdown, family violence and child abuse.<\/p>\n

The Royal Children’s Hospital has since 1991 facilitated a clinic for young homeless and marginalised people called the Young People\u2019s Health Service. For more information visit Centre for Adolescent Health : Young People’s Health Service<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Homelessness Matters Day is part of National Youth Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Since 1991 The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Centre for Adolescent Health has facilitated a clinic for young homeless and marginalised people called the Young People\u2019s Health Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}