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The Courier of Montgomery County
Montgomery County Youth Alliance receives statewide award
The Montgomery County Youth Alliance received statewide recognition in Houston on Wednesday evening. The Texas Network of Youth Services, which is dedicated to supporting critical services for young Texans and their families, presented the Community Youth Outreach alliance with the Steve Wick Innovative Program Award.
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The Austin Chronicle
Nowhere to Go: Young, homeless, and slipping through the cracks
With only a bus ticket and a few personal belongings, Regina Tardy fled North Carolina from her abusive boyfriend at 17 years old. She was heading to Lubbock, Texas, where she had a few distant relatives, but ended up stuck at an Austin-area Greyhound bus station. For a day and a half, she brainstormed how to get a refund and get back on track to Lubbock. Employees at the station were also unsure of what to do, so they called the police, who promptly transported Tardy to the homeless women's shelter.