By Dr Lois Lee | Children of the Night April 2013 Report
In 2011, Dr. Lois Lee created “Children of the Night With Out Walls” (WOW) and partnered with the National Runaway Safeline who fields over 100,000 calls from youth and their families each year.
Children of the Night WOW offers young people in shelters, drop in centers and outreach programs throughout America on-line GED assessments and GED tutoring, funding for GED testing, sophisticated mental
health services including application for financial assistance from the Social Security Administration, and professional volunteers such as lawyers, psychiatrists, physicians and dentists.
From January 1, 2013 to April 29, 2013, we helped 84 young people in 16 different states. We provided 29 youth with EDU assessment and 509 online tutoring sessions for the GED. We provided 86 case management services.
Youth living in shelters across America are not receiving the educational services or mental health services required to permanently remove them from life on the streets. Most youth shelters are funded by the federal government and limit a young person’s shelter stay to 21 days.
Our shelter partners and detention centers report that no one is providing a continuum of care for youth when they leave detention centers and foster homes.
The countless children living in shelters, motels or on the streets are without services or opportunities to escape the streets. WOW is the first program taking comprehensive educational and mental health services
to the streets of our cities.
WOW is a cost effective means of providing resources to America’s young people who are forced to live on the streets and WOW will leave a permanent and indelible mark on the standard of care for adolescents
who are forced to live outside of their natural homes
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By Dr Lois Lee | Project Report on Children of the Night WOW
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