Pilgrims' Progress On any given night there are as many as 2,000 homeless youths in King County, Washington. The good news is, this morning in Seattle there are at least 20 volunteers ready to educate them on their legal rights. Studies show that homeless youths have many more run-ins with police, and according to Trupin, both merchants and cities see these young people as a threat.
Homeless youths tend to be harassed more.
Educating them to deal with police and assert their rights is extremely important. After graduating from Pomona, Trupin traveled to Latin America on a Watson Fellowship to study how other nations dealt with the issue of youth homelessness. On that first experience with homeless youths, he was surprised to find that many of the children he worked with simply had no homes. Some had been born into families that were already too big. A lot of communities think homeless youths have made a conscious choice.