Utah’s Homeless Youth Resource Center Featured on CBS Evening News
Watch as, earlier this fall, CBS rode along with the street outreach program staff in Salt Lake City for several days to document their work and interview the homeless youth they serve.
About Volunteers of America, Utah’s Street Outreach Program
Each weekday, youth outreach workers seek out homeless street youth in Salt Lake County. By providing basic need items and establishing trust, outreach workers seek to encourage youth to follow-up for services at the Drop-In Center or to seek other services available in the community. If needed, the outreach team provides transportation to service providers.
About Volunteers of America’s Homelessness Services
Volunteers of America works every day, throughout the country, to prevent and end homelessness for individuals and families. We reach out to homeless individuals through street outreach and mobile outreach services. Once Volunteers of America engages homeless individuals, youth and families with children, we stay with them for as long as it takes to return them to self-sufficiency — providing assistance that ranges from paying a first month’s rent to offering permanent supportive housing so that people with disabilities can become stable and productive members of their communities.
We also provide assistance for the nearly 154,000 veterans that are homeless on any given night. In fact, the number of homeless Vietnam era veterans is greater than the number of service persons who died during that war. Already, veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are appearing in the homeless population. We provide a wide array of well-designed and managed services to meet the specific needs of homeless veterans.