By official counts, just a handful of homeless teens live on the streets of Hawaiʻi. Those who try to help them suggest that’s all wrong, that there are many more — perhaps 150 doing their best not to be counted.
They hide in tents at beach parks. On a friend or stranger’s couch. Far back in the valleys that stretch out of towns.
“Staying deep,” is the term used by one outreach worker, who once lived that life herself…