A mov­ing explo­ration of the cri­sis of home­less youth — told through the inspir­ing sto­ries of a woman on the front lines and the kids them­selves. 

When Vic­ki Sokolik’s son brought home a class­mate who was liv­ing on her own and was drop­ping out of school to sup­port her­self, Vic­ki stepped in to help — and became sud­den­ly aware of the invis­i­ble pop­u­la­tion of home­less young peo­ple in this coun­try. Offi­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed ​“unac­com­pa­nied home­less youth,” these are young peo­ple who are not in the fos­ter sys­tem, vic­tims of inter­gen­er­a­tional pover­ty, neglect, racism, domes­tic and sex­u­al abuse, homo­pho­bia, and addic­tion. Unable to live at home, they nav­i­gate life alone, with­out a safe­ty net or adult guid­ance, sleep­ing on friends’ couch­es, in parks, and on the street.

If You See Them wakes us up to the issue of youth home­less­ness in Amer­i­ca, told through Sokolik’s own sto­ry of advo­ca­cy and the voic­es of the kids them­selves. This sto­ry of grass­roots action shows us the world-shift­ing pow­er of com­pas­sion, accep­tance, belong­ing, and self-deter­mi­na­tion, and the capac­i­ty each of us has to change our com­mu­ni­ties for the better.