The drop-in center run by nonprofit After8ToEducate is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. year round as a safe space for the estimated 4,000 homeless students in...
When he arrived at the brown-brick building, it was not open yet. He wanted to arrive early to beat the overwhelming summer heat.AdvertisementZabel visits the drop-in center almost every day.Youths ages 14 to 21 come to eat meals, shower, borrow computers, do laundry, speak to counselors, get a change of clothes, store their things in lockers or just hang out. Next door, a Dallas ISD partnership allows enrolled students 18 and under to sleep at a 35-bed emergency and transitional living shelter.
Zabel discovered the center while living in the transitional living shelter next door, which was partnered with the nonprofit Promise House at the time. He spent a few months away, but now he’s back, hoping to find a job and get his life together.Shuttered Dallas school begins its second life as a drop-in center for homeless kidsAs the summer day went on, more youths started to trickle in.A young boy came quietly, sat by himself on a gray chair in the common area and put on a pair of headphones.
It is difficult to get an accurate count of how many homeless students are actually in Dallas, DISD officials said, though they added that last school year’s estimate of 4,335 students is likely low. That can mean students sleeping on friends’ couches, in abandoned apartments or in the streets, Saintus said. Some even ride on DART all night. She’s seen so many ways kids are homeless and works to find places for them to stay at night when possible.“No one really thinks about youth homelessness,” Saintus said. “When you think about the homeless population, you think about an adult. Never do you fathom there’s an 18-year-old — still considered a youth — sleeping on the streets.
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