StreetChild: An Unpaved Passage is a powerful and gripping memoir, which honestly and brutally documents the lives (and deaths) of many street children and their desperate struggles to survive.


Many of the real life characters, including the author, were featured in the powerful 1984 documentary, STREETWISE, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

StreetChild inspires hope as we follow one child into adulthood: through foster care, the "system", into success and ultimate redemption by sharing a continuing story of radical reconciliation, unexpected forgiveness and the challenges of self love.

"If you learn to love your life, your life will love you back."

This story proves that no matter what we go through, no matter how much pain we experience in our lives, we can heal, we can forgive anyone and we can use all experiences, good and bad, to become and do anything we choose in life.

Join the journey and become inspired as we work together to end and prevent homelessness, self hatred, familial abuse and child victimization.

"StreetChild is triumphant!"

Todd Holland, Multiple Emmy Award winning Director

"Prepare to be forever changed..."

Larry Flick, SiriusXM Radio

Each year, approximately 2 million young people (the population of Manhattan) experience homelessness in America. In 2008, over 740,000 (the population of Seattle) documented contacts were made by youth outreach professionals in the United States (as per the National Alliance to End Homelessness) and of those, less than 43,000 received emergency shelter and less than 3,600 were accepted into a transitional housing program.

In New York City, it is estimated there are 7,000 homeless youth on the streets each night - there are only 72 emergency shelter beds for them.