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More than half of homeless youth become homeless for the first time because they are asked to leave home by a parent or caregiver, and more than half say they have tried to stay at a shelter but it was full. Those findings resulted from a study released by the HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF). This blog post outlines the results from this first-of-its-kind study, funded by ACF’s Family and Youth Services Bureau and conducted by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which focused on 873 youth ages 14 to 21 in 11 cities. Respondents included street youth receiving services from ACF’s Street Outreach Program (SOP) grantees and street youth who were not currently using services from SOP grantees.