Homeless Youth: Access to Healthcare Services Homeless Youth Homeless Youth: Increasing Access to Healthcare Services Homeless Youth: Increasing Access to Healthcare Services The estimated number people in homeless families in 2014 were 216,261, of which nearly 60% were under the age of 18 (Henry et al
Other estimates suggest that the number of adolescents living on the streets is somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million, which would make this age group the primary homeless demographic populating the streets and shelters of America (Hudson et al
Although the absolute number of homeless people on the streets has been going down over the past couple of years, from 651,000 in 2007 to 580,000 in 2014, there has not been any change in the number of shelter beds available to help the homeless get off the streets. The lack of available shelter beds for the homeless remained unchanged despite the widening gap in income among Americans (Stone, Trisi, Sherman, & DeBot, 2015)