Nearly 200,000 young people under the age of 18 are estimated to be experiencing homelessness in California.
Advocates emphasize that California has the highest number of homeless youth in the entire nation, and a significant portion of them are students.
Now, Baker and his friend, Justin Lipford, are raising awareness about youth homelessness by walking, biking, and using public transit from San Diego through the Bay Area to Sacramento. "The whole issue behind the solidarity journey is to uplift and bring attention and resources to the fact that throughout our state every night young people are on the street, experiencing homelessness, trying to survive. We have been connected to this work for a very long time and we want the community to know about it," said Lipford.
"We have the highest per capita youth homelessness in the country. I mean these are terrible things to be known for. So clearly it is a crisis that our young people are facing. And these are people that we want to prevent from falling into chronic homelessness which is much more expensive and much more difficult – physically, mentally, and emotionally," said Josh Selo, the CEO of the Bill Wilson Center.
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