“ If you want to end homelessness, you give people homes.” - Demaree Miller

In this episode, our featured voices are Charles Lerner the Executive Director and Demaree Miller the Program Manager of At the Crossroads. During the Covid-19 pandemic At the Crossroads staff continues to meet youth where they are - living on the streets of san francisco. At the Crossroads humanistic one on one approach is all about building long-term relationships with youth to help them move off the street and secure the long term wrap around services they want.

In San Francisco's 2019 homeless residents count there were an estimated 8,000 people experiencing homelessness. Of the 8,000, 1,200 are Transitional Age Youth ages 18 to 24. One in ten people aged 12 to 25 will experience homelessness in a given year. The City of San Francisco has set a goal to reduce homeless youth by as much as 50% by 2023. Half of the homeless people in San Francisco first experienced homelessness before the age of 25.

At the Crossroads is working with the City of San Francisco’s Rising Up Initiative program in partnership with the department of homelessness and supportive housing to ensure at the crossroads clients will have in-depth unconditional support. The Rising Up Initiative plans to serve 500 transitional age youth who are unhoused and to prevent another 450 young people who are at risk of becoming homeless. To find out more about at the crossroads go to at the cross roads dot org

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