Archive for the ‘face and voice of homelessness’ Category
Jamie
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Jamie has lived homeless off and on since she was 14. She is 19 now living in a weekly rate, rundown hotel. At least for the four days paid for by a local church. Please watch her powerful story. Jamie talks real about life as a runway and youth homelessness. Everything from living under a [...]
Sandtago
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Before Sandtago lived in a weekly rate rundown hotel he lived under bridges and in abandoned buildings. I met Sandtago in Wichita, Kansas. He’s 22 but has been homeless for most of his young life. Because of an abusive family situation Sandtago’s first homelessness was living in a car at 5. Can you imagine being [...]
Jonathan
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Jonathan looks like most young adults. Hard to imagine him living on the streets of Denver homeless. I was impressed with his honesty when talking about the issues with his family that caused his homelessness. Looks like Jonathan’s motivation has changed. He now has a GED and is headed off to college. Special thanks to [...]
Levi
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Levi lives in a youth homeless shelter in Denver. He’s 20 and has lived on and off the streets for two years. Levi is full of youthful energy. He’s made some dumb choices, but didn’t we all make dumb choices in our youth? I know I did. I am presenting these stories so you can [...]
Shawn
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
CAUTION: Some content may be offensive. Our Hope is you’ll get mad enough to do something. As I watch Shawn’s story I cannot help but think of the disclaimer on the header of InvisiblePeople.tv. Shawn is homeless in Denver. He uses ‘colorful’ language that may offend some people. He is also high on heroin, and [...]
Rails
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
I met Rails “flying a sign” in Denver. Kind of threw me off when he told me he lost everything from smoking crack. I mean, look at him. He’s barely 20. Rails, like many homeless youth, end up traveling all over the country. Many hop trains. I didn’t ask, but that could be how he [...]
Raquel
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Raquel has been homeless since 17. She’s now 19, and this is her first week trying to get her life back together by living in a youth homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado. Raquel made some bad choices. She said she lived on the streets because her relationship with her mother was not so good, but [...]
JT
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
JT currently lives in a youth homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado. He has been homeless since last November. JT is 19. Most homeless youth ‘couch surf’, which is homeless. The stories I’ve heard are horrible. Not knowing where you are going to sleep, and then having to do ‘things’ do get space on the couch [...]
Jeremy and Alicia
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
I received a call today from Chris, an outreach worker at Denver’s homeless youth services Urban Peak . He said he had to pick up some kids left stranded by a “sales crew”. I never heard of such a thing so it didn’t “register” or make sense. When I arrived at their downtown facility I [...]
Amber and Earl
Posted by invisiblepeople | Filed under face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2010
Amber and Earl are homeless living on the streets. Today they happened to be traveling through Denver, Colorado, which is where we met. Amber has been homeless for 4 years now, ever since the day she turned 18. Earl says his first taste of homelessness was at 16. But that he was “straight up” homeless [...]
