‘Human tragedy’: Half of homeless Aussie youth asking for help get turned away
Half of the young homeless Australians who want a place to sleep are rejected, and the figures coming from a leading NSW profit show, a woman who has a chance to önemli one million to one ”are now forcing for change.
The NSW organization Yfoundations, young homeless people, looking for a safe place to sleep, confronted against the demand for overwhelming help.
“The popularity of shows like Survivor and lonely has turned survival into entertainment.
“This series confronts the raw reality that many young Australians face every day.
“Youth homelessness is not just a statistics, it’s a human tragedy.”
The content series is called Young and alone.
Organization Movies Young Homeless People Looking For Security
“We fascinate adults’ fighting ruthless conditions for entertainment, but not a social experiment for young people who have survival homelessness-this is a harsh reality and content series shining this light.”
Sydneysider Natasha Ransford was rescued by a “million one -to -one” chance, a young shelter center who saved a bed while in school camp.
Now nine years later, 25 -year -old lady Ransford is a young worker in the same shelter.
“No young choice to be homeless, news said Newswire.
“There are many misunderstandings that young people are just bad and use drugs, or they don’t want to listen to their parents or go out and therefore they are homeless. I want to challenge all these misconceptions.”
Between the ages of 14 and 16, Mrs. Ransford was jumping between her sister and her father’s house, because her mother’s “violent” alcoholism surpassed the young man’s home life.
He found a house with Project Youth in the southwest of Sydney. A scholarship from Toyota helped him finish 12 years while he was working part -time, cooking and cleaning after school.
Im I had to grow too fast, and now it was useful to me, Rans Ransford said.
Orum I have been paying rent since I was 16, I’m fine about money and budgeting. I have a really strong business ethics.
“But it wasn’t fair to put it on a 16 -year -old child.”
In the 10th year, leaving school to go and work seemed to be the best option.
Ms. Ransford’s mental health was in bad state and learned to use alcohol as a coping mechanism.
Project Youth, with the help of support from school and health services, now has a diploma and leadership and management certificate.
He was never forced to sleep in coarse, he could not move from the shelter to the housing and now he rented a place with your friends.
Ms. Ransford describes a turning point in her life when she holds a bed for the project youth to go to the school camp.
“I was 16 years old ım I went one afternoon and told them what happened at home.
“Surprisingly, there was a bedroom that existed that night, normally very, very rare.
“I had 11th grade camp the next day.
“I asked them whether they could hold the bed for me until I returned from the camp.
The Youth Shelter became his house on Saturday after the school camp.
“Now the chance of realization would be like a million,” Ransford said.
Orum I don’t think you can hold a bed for three nights for one of any service.
“Unfortunately, if you can get it then, then you can do it. First, first serve, but often I think it is a turning point in my life.”
With the development of a targeted plan and financing of federal and state governments, YFOUNDATIONS launched a petition that called for youth homelessness into a national priority.
“For a long time, the private and complex needs of children and young people who have risk of homelessness have been assumed to be the same as adults, and the government’s plans to address homelessness have not been explicitly discussed,” he says.
