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More Than a Place to Sleep: Understanding the Health and Well-Being of Homeless High School Students

In New York City, one out of every eight public school students has been homeless at some point in the past five years. One in four (26%) of these students is in high school. In this report, we begin to explore differences in risk behaviors and health outcomes between homeless high school students and their housed classmates. …

a policy brief from ICPH February 2013 Charter schools were introduced to New York City in 1999 to inject new life into the nation’s largest education system. Fourteen years later, the debate over whether these institutions succeed in helping the city’s neediest students remains front and center. While only 4% of New York City’s more…

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More Than a Place to Sleep: Understanding the Health and Well-Being of Homeless High School Students

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Number of Families with Children in NYC DHS Shelter Comparison

Webinar Recording Available: Engaging Families + Supporting Children’s Educational Needs in Shelter

The swelling number of homeless families overwhelms the supply of NYC hotels & NYC opens its first barracks-style congregate shelter in the Bronx