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Issue Brief

Family Homelessness - New Jersey

Scope of the Problem  factual statements on the extent of the problem in the past, current, or future

• More than 7,557 of New Jersey’s children experience homelessness each year accord- ing to the data collected by the McKinney-Vento Educational Programs.1 New Jersey ranks 18th in the number of homeless children and 2nd in the percentage of children who are homeless.1 Of the 272,000 children living in poverty in New Jersey, three out of every one hundred (3%) are homeless.^[1]  

Past Policy & Program Milestones  key legislation and milestones including policy and funding shifts, major studies, etc.

Current Policy & Programs  summary of current policies in the form of legislation, programs, and funding

Key Organizations contacts for public and private organizations

• Government
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• Non-Profit - Service Providing
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• Non-Profit - Advocacy/Membership/Network
• New Jersey Advocacy Network to End Homelessness: advocates on a local, state and federal level for adequate funding and sound practices that will end homelessness.  
• Foundation
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• Other
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Bibliography   web sites, reports, articles, and other reference material

• State level report on New Jersey from America's Youngest Outcasts Report^[2]

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Contributor(s): 

Footnotes

1. American Community Survey (2006); http://www.census.gov/acs/www/ ▲
2. http://www.homelesschildrenamerica.org/states.php?state=NJ; http://www.homelesschildrenamerica.org/pdf/report_cards/long/nj_long.pdf ▲