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This joint resolution recognizes the critical issue of youth homelessness in California by designating November 2025 as California Youth Homelessness Outreach, Prevention, and Education (HOPE) Month. The resolution highlights the significant challenges faced by runaway and homeless youth, aged 12 to 24, including the staggering national statistic of 4.2 million youth experiencing homelessness annually, with a disproportionate impact on youth of color and LGBTQ+ youth. In California specifically, an estimated 200,000 youth under 18 and thousands more between 18-24 experience homelessness each year, with 9,052 unaccompanied homeless youth and 1,890 parenting youth and their children identified in the 2024 point-in-time count. The resolution emphasizes the complex factors contributing to youth homelessness, such as conflict, abuse, neglect, and poverty, and underscores the severe risks these youth face, including physical abuse, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, and early drug use. By proclaiming this month, the Legislature aims to raise awareness, encourage action from individuals, schools, communities, businesses, and government entities, and highlight the importance of providing safe, stable housing and support for vulnerable youth to help them develop into healthy, productive adults.

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