A group of Northern New Mexico agencies will get $3.37 million in federal funds to seek ways of dealing with homelessness among young people, a sum that local service providers said could help them make a significant in a persistent problem.
Read MoreToday, there were 122 beds for homeless youth at 10 shelters across the state. In Northern New Mexico, at three shelters from Farmington to Taos to Santa Fe, there were just 52.
Most were taken.
It's hard to pin down just how many young homeless people there are in any community. The people who track that sort of thing say they're harder to find and harder to engage than adults who are homeless; more reluctant to talk with anyone about what they need.
A $3.37 million federal grant to coordinate a response across 14 Northern New Mexico counties will help.
Read MoreToday, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján announced $2 million over the next five years in federal funding for programs that support youth and families experiencing homelessness in Northern New Mexico.
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