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Create a More Connected Minnesota

On a cold Friday night in January, Alex Nelson and Katie Nichol prepare for a shift of street outreach in Minneapolis.  They fill their bags with gloves, hats and other resources for youth on the streets.  

Both Nelson and Nichol are outreach veterans, and they have a ground-level understanding of what our homeless youth are facing.  They talk about the work they do and why they think homeless youth are invisible.

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Larissa Anderson

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On any given night in Minnesota, nearly 650 kids under 18 are on the streets and on their own.  Street outreach workers talk about why these young people are so hard to see.

Homeless outreach worker Alex Nelson says it is hard to believe that there can be homeless people in a country as affluent as the U.S.

Minnesota's invisible homeless youth

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