By Lois Lee | Founder and President
In 2011, Dr. Lois Lee created “Children of the Night With Out Walls” (WOW) and partnered
with the National Runaway Switchboard 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.
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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