About 10% of shelter youth
and 28% of street youth

report having participated in “survival sex” – the exchange of sex for shelter, food, drugs, or other subsistence needs.

32% of runaway and homeless youth

have attempted suicide at some point in their lives.

LGBTQ youth are more likely

to run away from home than heterosexual youth.

Over 50% of youth

in shelters and on the streets reported that their parents either told them to leave or knew they were leaving but did not care.

The average age of entry into sex trafficking rings is

between 12-14 years old.

Up to 90% of runaways

will become involved in sex trafficking.

1 in 3 runaways will be approached within

48 hours of leaving home

to join human trafficking rings.