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Are you or a friend coping with a family conflict like separated, divorced, drug addicted, abused or abusive parents?
family
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Are you or a friend coping with a problem friendship, boyfriend, girlfriend, authority figure, cult or gang?
relationships
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Are you or a friend coping with poor self-esteem, stress, anxiety, loneliness, grief, anger or depression?
feelings
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Are you or a friend coping with depression or thoughts of suicide?
suicide
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Are you or a friend coping with a lack of basic needs like food, clothing, housing, employment, or trouble at school?
basic needs
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Are you or a friend coping with prejudice, neglect, emotional, physical or sexual abuse, survival sex, prostitution, domestic violence or crime?
abuse
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Are you or a friend coping with a physical disability, sexually transmitted disease (STD), HIV/AIDS, self-harm, a psychiatric or eating disorder?
health
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Are you or a friend coping with questions about sexuality, sexual hygiene, a pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease (STD) or HIV/AIDS?
sex
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Are you or a friend coping with tobacco, alcohol, street drugs or prescription drugs?
drugs & alcohol
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Are you or a friend coping with thoughts of leaving home, running away or are you already homeless?
running away
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Search your neighborhood
1. THOROUGHLY SEARCH THE HOUSE OR APARTMENT AND SURROUNDING AREA. If you live in an apartment, ask a building employee to help look in unfamiliar, inaccessible, or locked areas including the basement, roof, laundry room, boiler room, garage, etc.
2. ALERT THE NEIGHBORS OR TENANTS in your building by posting notices in elevators, hallways, or slipping them under doors.
3. ALERT PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD such as store owners, mail carriers, door attendants, etc. MAKE COPIES OF YOUR CHILD'S PHOTOGRAPH AND/OR DESCRIPTION similar to that in the Missing Person's Report. Choose a photograph that is recent and realistic. Post fliers on store windows, lampposts, and give them to local businesses, etc.
4. SEARCH HANGOUTS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES where youth often go. Leave fliers.