THE ISSUES
How many youth are living on our streets? What dangers do they face?
Learn the issues - from foster care to child trafficking - that impact and drive youth homelessness.
Pregnant and Parenting Youth
Covenant House Florida provides holistic care for young people experiencing homelessness, including young families experiencing homelessness and, particularly, young moms and their babies.
It is common for young people facing homelessness to be sexually active, including those who practice survival sex or are trafficked for sex, and they are at higher risk of pregnancy. Knowing they have no safe, stable place to care for and raise their children compounds their already traumatic test of daily survival.
Yet, young families experiencing homelessness find there are few options for safe shelter and services for them. They need everything—food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and safety, plus education, vocational training, and life skills to achieve a secure future for themselves and their children.
Care is critical. Without it, their children are at higher risk for a range of issues, from developmental delays to repeated bouts of homelessness as they grow older, and the young parents themselves go untreated for the trauma and other issues that drove them to and have kept them homeless.
When we welcome a young mom or dad into one of our houses, we provide a host of wraparound services that both respond to their immediate needs and support them while they work on acquiring skills and knowledge that will allow them to build a stable life for themselves and their children.
The trauma-informed, resilience-focused care our highly trained staff offers is the product of more than 36 years of experience serving young people facing homelessness.
