Do They Count? Homeless Children and COVID-19

Diane Nilan
7 min readMar 19, 2020

Yvonne Vissing and Diane Nilan

This little one and her extended family in an overcrowded camper. Photo Diane Nilan

Homeless children are regularly out of sight, thus out of mind. These are the children who invisibly live in cars, motels, campgrounds, shelters, doubled-up with others, couch-surfing, and in locations not safe or suitable for human habitation — places they call home. As government is attempting to address the coronavirus, or COVID-19, millions of

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Diane Nilan

Founder/pres. HEAR US Inc., gives voice & visibility to homeless families & youth, ran shelters, advocate, filmmaker, author, 18 yrs. on US backroads. hearus.us