"The Real Homeless of Wayzata High"

"Halfway through the winter, Crystal has just enrolled after a long hiatus from school. Her hope is that after a decade of turmoil, she will finally graft together enough credits for a diploma.

Her troubles began five years ago, when she was living with her father and stepmother in Lake Jackson, Texas. At age 13, she came home from church one Sunday to find her dad had put a bullet in his head. Her mom couldn't take her; she'd always been a drug addict, Crystal says. So she fell to relatives...
Sarah Klouda, the Teens Alone caseworker assigned to Crystal, says it's far more difficult to be homeless in Wayzata than in north Minneapolis, where Klouda began her career.

"When I first got to the suburbs, I thought there couldn't be a whole lot of homeless young people. This is going to be easy," Klouda says. "But it's actually a lot harder because the issue is prevalent, but the resources are not here."

Homeless kids here are often out-of-state migrants or local kids evicted by parents on their 18th birthdays. Some are trying to escape hostile moms and dads. Others come from homeless families who've planted themselves in one of the best school districts in the state, seeking something better for their children."
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2015/03/the_real_homeless_of_wayzata_high.php