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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.
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Bridgewater Office

16 Fourth Avenue
Bridgewater, NJ 08807

Office: 908.526.6605
ext. 321/ext. 323
Fax: 908.526.4242

Morristown Office

175 Washington Street
Morristown, NJ 07960

Office: 973.644.4666
Fax: 973.644.4885

Plainfield Office

1371 Park Avenue
Plainfield, NJ 07060

Office: 973.644.4666
Fax: 973.644.4885

Street Smart Outreach is a program of Visions and Pathways.

www.visionsandpathways.org/

STREET SMART is a street outreach program focused on helping adolescents and young adults between the ages of 13-21 who may be homeless, living in unsafe environments, or who have been or are at risk of being sexually abused or exploited. The program serves youth throughout Central and Northern New Jersey.

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