There are dozens of teens living on the streets of Birmingham, federal data shows.
Photos line the wall near the front door of the center in downtown Birmingham, each one memorializing a homeless young person killed on the city’s streets.
“You have young people who are out on their own and don’t know how to navigate systems and a lot of what the staff does is assist young people with basic things, like getting their license, social security cards or signing up for Medicaid benefits,” said Jennifer Ellison, the executive director of In Alabama, service providers say they have seen a rise in LGBTQ youth who are homeless since the legislature passed a slate of laws targeting the group in 2022. Nationwide, LGBTQ youth have a“I’ve seen several cases of LGBTQIA plus kids coming through who had to leave their home or have been forced out of their homes just in the first six months of this year,” said Ellison.
“Unfortunately, there’s just not a lot of options because people don’t necessarily think that there is a need. You don’t think about youth, age 12 to 17, potentially being runaway or homeless. But unfortunately, it does happen quite a bit.”
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