WASHINGTON - A young education technician from Auburn told the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee that several programs up for re-authorization are crucial to helping homeless youth.
Brittany Dixon told the panel how she became homeless despite her middle-class upbringing.
"My story shows that homelessness can happen to anyone," Dixon said. "During the summer after my senior year in high school, I found myself in a situation with nowhere to go. After a final dispute with my mother, she told me to leave and made me homeless at the age of eighteen."
Dixon went on to graduate from the University of Maine at Farmington and told the panel she plans to teach kindergarten as soon as a position opens up.
Maine U.S. Sen. Susan Collins praised Dixon's testimony, saying her story points out why federal funding for youth homeless programs is important.
