As youth homelessness quietly rises across Colorado, The Matthews House is sounding the alarm and calling for community support to help fill a growing gap in resources for youth and young adults experiencing housing instability.
Since opening just eight months ago, The Landing, The Matthews House’s Loveland-based youth shelter, has provided 2,077 nights of safety to 100 youth and young adults. Each of those nights represents a young person who was not sleeping outside, not bouncing between couches and not left to face crisis alone.
What began as a local response has now become a statewide necessity. In the past several months, TGTHR in Boulder and The Place in Colorado Springs—both long-standing youth shelters—have closed their doors. That leaves The Landing and a shelter in Denver as the only two remaining options in Colorado for youth under 18 seeking emergency shelter and support…