PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A group of teenagers from the suburbs reach out to kids their age who live under much different circumstances. Jasmin Johnson, 16, started the program after she learned about teens in crisis.
Inside a shelter in Fairmount are kids who just need a place to stay. Gwendolyn A. Bailey, executive director of Youth Service Inc., explained, “Some of them are not connected to family, some are and unable to live at home at the current time, so this is a temporary home for some of them.”
Around 300 children ages 12 to 18 comes through this emergency shelter every year. Some don’t even have their own deodorant. Carla Johnson, who works here at the shelter, explained the situation to her daughter, 16-year-old Jasmin.
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