It's a time when carving out your identity and making choices can be both liberating and terrifying. Teen Voices One of the most important bridges that we cross in our lives is adolescence. No one said being a teenager is easy. There are about 300,000 teen runaways on the streets of America today, where day to day survival looms larger than anything else. But there are people who are trying to help.
Addiction reaches kids as young as ten years old through a trendy drug called ecstasy.
At Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, the Santa Monica Rape Crisis Center holds workshops to educate kids and help prevent acquaintance rape. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, Native American teens are achieving their potential within their community. Please continue to join us on line, and check with the ABC affiliate in your area for more information on the dilemmas teens face and the caring people working on solutions. It's a great way to put Children First.