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IKONICO FAX 1991.0S-21 I t I N C I N fi AuftUSl 16,2002 F A M I I I I S I 0 G I 1 H f « 0S«27OM «172 P.02/04 Kon Moorw CUy ol Orono P.O. Box 66 Crystal Bay, MN 5W23 0066 H i^vaanj 6'xV.av't "A" fill th.il nm! Collalmralivc and school district p^nnel year history serving more than 3000 youUi ai^d 1000 parents living in the Eden 1 rairie, Hopkins, St Louis ^rk aiul Wnyxata school uistrlds and asked to become part of our organisation. Asquest from all the communities we serve, we arc asking the municipalities served by t e were Orono School Ulslricl to contribute to Teei« Alone. Nm//or fjic in the Teens Alone service area reported 393 runaways, almost onc-thiref fewer than 2(100. Teens Alone is committed to helping youth who *'**''® away and slrivcs to help prevent a rim from hapjiening in the first place. be adecrease in runaways is that Teens Alone is commilted to be a more preventative «n«. .ha. mo« 0«.. .rfnintt. g,,don.ro.I?J^S h.v<- n.n airay a. W-i. one «o«. AlUwush P-J'-Xw have dcrrea.scd, Student Survey respondents show an B% mcre.ise from the 199B Survey. Ihe costs of running away are gic.it for young people and their faimlies. Runiiways, X . suburban youth who run into the urban areas, arc at high nsk of sexual exploitaliw, nbule hu4er/ "iminal victimization. Ihe family, too, is al-n.sk for permanent S:;?e a teen has left home-and the irmger they arc out on their parents have adopted Ihis mcntalily, lliinking the only solution l.s to ktik the Urn out of the liousc significant way in which Teens Alone has evolved in its eleven-year history is that our primary fcSis is no longer just working with runaway and and other usersof Teens Alone services refer families in crisis or connict m order to prevent the dissolution of a family. Teens Alone youth tell us; • 66% are experiencing failing grades • 42% Iwvc trouble communicating with their parents • 35% admit to using chemicals (and 15% are concerned about their parent s u. ) • 33% nwuUon f^otne kind uf fiuixily violwicc, or pc^ • 30% arc truant