LA TIMES VIDEO - ON THE STREETS - YOUNG and HOMELESS

EXCERPT:

Published on Jan 11, 2016

Lisa Biagiotti joins homeless youth social workers with Covenant House as they canvass Hollywood for 18- to 24-year-olds. An estimated 2,000 young adults sleep on the streets of Los Angeles every night. Down alleyways and side streets, Lisa meets Kristyna, Rimecco and Ray, and learns about what it's like to be young and homeless in Hollywood.

'It's just me, myself and I [on] these cold, hard streets.' -- KRISTYNA

ON THE STREETS is an ongoing video series on homelessness in Southern California

In this video series, Lisa Biagiotti sets out to put faces to the statistics. But 'the homeless' are united only in that they have no place to live. She meets people on the streets, learns about their experiences and explores the issues they face. Biagiotti is collaborating with Times reporters and our data team to plot where to take her camera next.

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Here is Hollywood
Covenant House California (Los Angeles)
1325 N. Western Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90027
(323) 461-3131

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Founded in 1977, all services are free of charge and includes services for the Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendering, and Gay communities. We know some of you are afraid to become homeless by leaving an abusive home, and we know some of you are homeless and are being abused by street boyfriends or men who live in the same shelter you do and are not getting the help of any case managers. We know some of you are getting beat up by other women.

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PHYSICAL ABUSE IS JUST ONE ASPECT. COERCIVE CONTROL, MANIPULATION, STALKING, and EMOTIONAL ABUSE hurt too, if not more. Abusive people, wherever you know them, are often jealous, controlling, overly critical, and want to isolate you from support. "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HAPPENS IN THE LESBIAN COMMUNITY AS OFTEN AS IN STRAIGHT COMMUNITY. It doesn't stop because you are pregnant.

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