Service providers say many older foster kids and homeless youths are struggling to find shelter or remain employed.
Benjamin Miller, 20, stands outside his East Anchorage home on Thursday, April 2, 2020. Miller is staying with people who have applied to be his emergency foster family. An anthropology student at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Miller scrambled to find housing after the UAA dorms largely closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. He entered the foster system when he was 17 and is attending the University of Alaska on a scholarship.
He lost his on-campus job at the student union and currently has no income. But Miller feels grateful to have a roof over his head. Students at boarding schools, the Alaska Military Youth Academy and Job Corps have reached out for help, said Amanda Metivier, executive director of the nonprofit Her employees, many of them frontline social workers, are only making in-person contact with foster children in emergency situations until the end of the month, according to a
With schools closed statewide, many students lost their safety net. And with thousands of adults and teens losing their jobs, the economic hardship is affecting children, too, making many more
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