Young and homeless, with dwindling options

Funding cuts mean less money for outreach and for people who have opened their homes to teens - bad news for a growing, needy population

By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
December 8, 2008

Sitting in a Bend motel room late last month, Jared Hendriks said the only thing preventing him from drinking himself to death was his 3-year-old son.

For a couple of weeks, Hendriks, 24, had been living at the Westward Ho Motel — in an efficiency room paid for by Bend’s....

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