Journey to End Youth Homelessness

Hello! My team and I are students from UNT. We have decided to partner with the Journey to Dream Non- profit to help make a visible impact on the youth homelessness pandemic that is spreading across our nation like an abhorrent fire. The Journey to Dream Non-profit is an organization based out of Denton, Tx that offers a residential campus in effort of producing home stability, in-school programs to better educate and prepare youth for the challenges of adulthood, and support services to meet homeless youth where they are. Like JTD, we share the same goal of ending a crisis that affects the future of our nation. When looking at youth homelessness, the US, despite being an economic superpower, has a massive homelessness problem and 40% of that group are youths that are below the age of 18. This problem extends to everyone including to people within our group who have had firsthand experiences dealing with this destructive force from the perspective of having a sibling go through homelessness. Jeremiah saw how it strained the relationships around the people within his family and how it caused him to personally struggle with the fact that he could not do anything to change the problem at its core. With the help of organizations like JTD there can be successful initiatives to combat this fire spreading across our nation. For example, Kerri a JTD graduate, came out to her parents as gay and was kicked out of the house. She had to resort to bouncing around friends and extended family’s houses till she ended up at JTD. Through connecting with JTD, she was able to get housing which helped her grow mentally, emotionally, and she is now learning how to let go of the shame and family disappointment she felt towards her family. Through their efforts, JTD has been able to reach 15,000 teens annually. All the donations will go directly to JTD in efforts to expand their organization, their in-school programs, their residential campus, support services, and their overall reach and impact across north Texas.

Nelson Mandela once said that "Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them". So, I ask that you support us in our endeavor, so that the future of our nation that is enslaved to poverty, hunger, and homelessness can enjoy the fruits of freedom as well.

Ways to contact the Journey to Dream Non-profit for more information are as follows:

Number: (469) [phone redacted]

Website:

https://www.journeytodream.com

Contact 1 — Journey to Dream

Note: Through the second website link you can leave your information and a message. The website also provides emails for specific and general inquiries as well.

Sources:

Homeless Youth: America's Hidden Population (rawhide.org)

About Us Overview — Journey to Dream

Residential Campus — Journey to Dream