Shelters for Homeless Teens Must Grapple with Expiration of Becca Law Modification
Posted on July 3rd, 2012
A modification of the state's "Becca Law," that allowed shelters serving homeless youth up to 72 hours to work with a child before being required to contact authorities or parents, expired without renewal during the busy, budget-heavy legislative session this year. Shelter workers are now faced with a much shorter timeframe in which to build rapport with their teen clients and to determine how best to help them. CLS advocates have been involved in the effort to maintain the 72 hour modification and are quoted in this article on the issue in a recent edition of Real Change.
