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LANSING —  Shai, an 18-year-old from Detroit, is on her way to a local university after spending the last year homeless because her home life disintegrated. After her parents separated, her sister disappeared and Shai attempted suicide.

Through it all, she fell back on her schooling — “No matter where we went, I always managed to stay in school, stay busy with work so that I can take care of myself” —  while the nonprofit Covenant House in Detroit offered a safe place to live and helped get her life back on track.

DaShawn, an 18-year-old from Muskegon, was physically abused by his aunt and uncle who raised him because his biological parents were struggling with drug addiction.

To escape the abuse, he lived with friends but was expelled in 10th grade. He then moved in with his mom until she was hospitalized for a meth overdose.

Left alone again, he stayed at a Grand Rapids homeless shelter for a six-week youth program but returned to the streets with few options until he found help as one of the first residents at a new Covenant House shelter in Grand Rapids.

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