FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fw: Homeless children

[Carol Koepp (carolkoepp]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jerry Edwards 
To: Heidi Johnson 
Cc: Carol Koepp 
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:33 PM
Subject: Homeless children


      Heidi,
      Tonight's (Tuesday 31 March) News Hour with Jim Lehrer had a very 
interesting, but distressing article on homeless children, and how schools end 
up having to serve as social workers with their students.  Focus was on one 
school in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
      Here is the link http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
      However, according to the site, tonight's video is not yet available.
      Incidentally, Carol and I attended a meeting of the PEACE Foundation in 
North Minneapolis, and learned a shocking statistic--that 1 in 6 school 
students are homeless!  So we have the problem in a big way here.
      Regards,
      Jerry Edwards