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Tucson's Youth On Their Own provides basic needs for homeless youth ages 13-21 to be able to attend and graduate from more than 120 high schools around Arizona.
The program uses stipends, received from community donations and fund-raisers, to provide the students with money to help them with basics, such as lunch and school supplies.
"There are two aspects to our program," Executive Director Teresa L. Baker says. "The stipend is the first, which provides the students with $125 a month, which if you do the math is about $4 a day."
The $125 is given to each student based on factors like grades, attendance and abstaining from drugs and alcohol.
The second aspect is an emergency stipend, which helps to pay for medical care and other unexpected expenses.
Youth on Their Own works with a variety of organizations around town to help provide for the youths involved with the organization, which had a 92 percent graduation rate last year with 150 seniors attending high school.
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