The Foster-Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline
Transitioning From State Foster Care to Adulthood Each year, 20,000-30,000 young adults nationally, including 600-1,000+ in...
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Op-Ed: A Letter to Myself: Lessons From Three Years of Breaktime
About three years ago, as a freshman at Harvard University and just days after founding Breaktime with Connor, I wrote a letter to my...
‘Costing Us All’: The Troubling Prevalence of LGBTQ Young Adult Homelessness
June is Pride Month—that time of year to commemorate the history, challenges, and contributions of the LGBTQ community. As we celebrate...
The ‘Crushing’ Cycle of Homelessness and Mental Illness
When Janet Smith, an alumna of Breaktime, speaks about her past experience with homelessness, she describes a personal battle complicated...
Climate Justice: How Climate Change is Exacerbating the Homelessness Crisis
In 2018, oppressive heat took the lives of 42 people experiencing homelessness in Maricopa County, Arizona. One woman experiencing...
Homelessness in America: Implicit Biases in the Hiring Process
Hiring Bias in the Workplace In recent years, organizations across the U.S. have devoted time and resources toward improving the...
Black and Homeless: Reflecting on Racial Inequities in America’s Homeless Population
Mikayla Woodberry, an Alumna of Breaktime, has a blunt message about how our nation is failing Black Americans experiencing homelessness:...
Op-Ed: How stereotypes and social stigmas made my experience with homelessness even more difficult
This article was written by Kabrien Johnson, alumna of Breaktime, with an introduction written by Helen He. Introduction “I feel like the...
Homeless During the Holidays
While many of us view the holidays with festive joy, the cold climate and societal traditions make this time of year especially...
Hunger, Homelessness, and COVID-19: How the Pandemic Has Shed Light on Long-Standing Injustices
Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week is an annual weeklong program sponsored by the National Coalition for Homeless and the National...
The Homeless Cannot #StayHome
This article was written by Tony Shu, co-founder of Breaktime. As of today, 44 states have issued some form of “stay-at-home” orders to...