Page 2, Portland Observer, April 10, 1906
Census shows average street teen to be 16-year-old male dropout
A just -completed census o f teen
agers who visit The Salvation Army's
Greenhouse Center — a downtown
drop-in facility for street youth —
shows that nearly half o f the kids sur
veyed have been living on their own
for at least two years.
Forty-five percent of the respond
ents, age 14 to 21. said they had been
completely ‘ 'independent" o f their
families for two or more years.
But roughly a quarier o f the 283
total kids responding to the survey
said they had been on the streets two
months or less.
And three o f the older teenagers
said they left home ten years ago.
The census, conducted by staff o f
the Greenhouse Center, which is co
sponsored by the Rotary Club o f
Portland, was prompted by the fact
that no other similar study existed.
"W e intend this as a service for
other helping groups and for the pub
lic," said Lt. Col. David P. Riley,
commander of The Salvation A rm y’s
Cascade Division.
The census shows a typical street
teen to be a 16-year-old boy who
has worked the streets o f downtown
Portland for the past three years.
Reared by his mother in a Portland
suburb, he dropped out o f school
before running away to the streets.
He occasionally shares an apart
ment with several other street youths,
but will often sleep in doorways or
low cost hotels in the downtown core.
Other findings o f the census indude:
• Twenty-four percent of those sur
veyed, a slight majority, indicated that
they arc 19 years old Most of the kids
fall into the 16-19 year age group. Riley
cautioned, however, that many street
kids routinely lie to inflate their ages.
The youngest child ever to seek help at
Greenhouse was an eight-year-old run
away.
• Thirty-four percent of those re
sponding were Ictnale — a high figure
that surprised Salvation Army work-
ere. Previously» female teens were
thought to have comprised 25 percent
o f the total population.
• A great gap exists between "new”
and veteran street kids. While 29 per
cent o f those surveyed said they had
been on the streets between two and
four years, 23 percent indicated they
came to the streets less than two
months ago.
• An overwhelming 8 1 percent of
street teens who participated in the
census study are white. Minorities
represented include nine percent
Black, six percent Native American,
three percent Hispanic and one per
cent Asian.
Riley noted that Portland's street
teen population is highly transitory
so that the census will soon be out
dated.
"M a n y times we'll see seasonal
fluctuations, three times o f the year
when more kids leave home,” Riley
said "T hat coupled with the fact that
these teens are always on the move
gives our census a very limited life-
span."
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Five leaders o f the Federal ion o f
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E V A N S T O N , IL — Matthew W .
Prophet, superintendent o f schools
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Prophet, a graduate o f the School
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1972, is one o f 10 winners o f the an
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four years as superintendent o f the
Lansing (Michigan) School District.
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