Oonaten I, a Denver teenager who was sleeping on park benches until a pilot program created by local business leaders and advocates for the homeless found him a job, and Jerene Petersen, executive director of Urban Peak, a Denver group that helps homeless kids, talk about the findings of a recent survey of homeless children and young people.
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