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Did you know?
There are homeless children in every school in Lawrence.
Tonight dozens of Lawrence children will be forced to sleep in cars, cheap motels or outdoors. Without housing, they are vulnerable, friendships are difficult, school is challenging, health is endangered, and self-esteem is fragile. Surrounded by all the beauty and comfort that this community offers, their lives are bleak.
Half of these children are under seven years old. They are the children of hard working but low income families who have suffered setbacks that have left them, often for the first time in their lives, homeless. They once lived in neighborhoods where they went to work, shopped, paid taxes, voted, and sent their children to school. But a lost job, sickness or injury, fire, or transportation breakdown has put them on the street.
Unlike the chronic or transient homeless populations, they are not street-smart. Embarassed by their condition, they don't advertise their lack of stable housing at work or at school. It is a sad fact that every public school in Lawrence, from K-12, has children who will have no secure place to sleep tonight. Some of your children have them in their classes - and likely don't know it. No child brags about homelessness.
Fortunately there is a solution to this problem - Family Promise. Find out how you can make a difference.