Disconnected youth in Connecticut say they feel hopeless and forgotten
A Connecticut disconnected youth group seeks assistance from the community to regain direction and pursue their future endeavors.
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Homeless children sleep in cars in a CT city and woods elsewhere. ‘We’ve never seen this before,’ says an advocate
There are children sleeping in cars across Connecticut, but especially in the northwestern corner of the state, where there is no overflow shelter.
“As of last week, our numbers indicate we have close to 70 unsheltered children across the state and 60 youth between the ages of 18 and 24,” said Sarah Fox, chief executive officer of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.
State Data Shows Drop in High School Graduation Rates and College Enrollment
The state data dovetails with a recent report from the Dalio Foundation, in partnership with Boston Consulting Group, which found one in five young people in the state were either at risk of not graduating high school or had dropped out and were not employed or engaged in a workforce program. The report also said that one in three high schoolers — or 56,000 statewide — were at risk of not graduating in 2022.
Panelists: Young People Need More Support, And Earlier, But The Public Still Needs To Get Behind It
Education officials and nonprofit service providers said the state legislature, the business community, and even voters are needed to help fix a statewide crisis of children and young adults who are considered at-risk or disconnected.