Streetlight Offers Glimmer of Hope; a Shaw House Program Serves Region's Homeless 'Throwaway Kids'

"He used to be this big pothead; he was sleeping on the street and under bridges," the 39-year-old outreach worker recalled recently at the Shaw House, a Greater Bangor homeless shelter for youth that has been her employer for the last six years.

Not long ago the once-homeless young man sought Flood's help. Now he was on his own, working a steady job and trying to set his life in drug-free motion.

"I just was sitting there, and he came over and said, 'I've been wanting to tell you for a while that what you did for me back then, it really helped.'"

"That's all I needed," she concluded. "If I help one kid, then I'm happy."

One kid...

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