Click
the pic at left to cast your vote for Alex Vaassen and the Colorado
Rapids in Major League Soccer's Community MVP Contest.
If
Alex wins, Urban Peak will receive $10,000. Urban Peak provides
services to 2,600 homeless youth every year--many of them gay or
bisexual.
“With all of the successes around equality that
we have seen just in the past year, it is difficult to imagine that
today a young person is coming home to his bags packed, and in that most
vulnerable moment of finally having come out to his parents, is asked
to leave home," says Dan Hanley, Urban Peak's Director of Development
and Public Affairs. "40% of the estimated 1.7 million youth experiencing
homelessness identify as LGBTIQ. At Urban Peak, we provide complete and
absolute safety for these youth, most of whom have experienced levels
of trauma that would shock you.”