Reading “Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope” by Kevin Ryan and Tina Kelley has showed me that homeless people are not just adults, but kids as well. This book shows you six youth who went through poverty and homelessness. I learned that these kids all come from different backgrounds and all had different themes to their lives on what was going on. The six major themes in this book were not having a good education, trafficking, turning eighteen and no longer in the system, becoming pregnant, becoming addicted to drugs, and having different sexualities. A lot of these stories came from lives that these kids could not control. Especially, reading about the kids who were abused or watched their own parents being abused by each other. These teens are not getting the help they need and they are getting sent to the wrong path causing them to become homeless. We need to have more programs available for homeless youth to be financially independent, educated, and help them find homes to get them off the streets. One of the statistics that really surprised me was that “Sexual minority youth account for up to 40% of homeless shelter residents. An estimated 24,000 to 400,000 LGBTQ minors become homeless (Almost Home).” This is astonishing to me, because it is outrageous to believe that many teens are becoming homeless merely because of their sexuality. Every person should be equal, and your sexuality should not be costing you a roof over your head. Learning one more thing from the book, not only are programs a great help for homelessness but so is mentorship. Having a simple mentor can do as much of boosting someone’s self-esteem and hope in themselves. But in the end, young kids should not be living or trying to survive on the streets.