Handbook For Homeless Youth Debuts At Houston Shelter

The homeless youth and the multinational law firm - which has a major Houston office - were looking for someone to develop a pamphlet that could help young adults living on the streets understand their legal rights. "There's no one place on the Internet where you can go if you're a youth, you can have something spoken in your language at a level that you can understand, [providing] some practical tips about what you need to do to realize the rights you already have," Vigil said during a press conference Thursday at the Covenant House, a homeless youth shelter in Houston. On Thursday, the Homeless Youth handbook for Texas debuted at a homeless shelter that's served young adults in Houston since the 1980s. More than 50 attorneys and staff members at Baker & McKenzie, the advocacy group Texas Appleseed and Houston-based Weatherford International spent hundreds of hours researching, writing and editing the handbook. Advocates hope it will become a much-needed resource for the large number of homeless teens and young adults in Texas. More than 100,000 students were identified as homeless during the 2014-2015 school year throughout Texas school districts.