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Marin IJ: From Homelessness to Hope: A Marin Youth Story
By Julian Kane Stein

An early childhood memory was in preschool when an incident occurred that led to me being taken away from my parents by CPS and put into foster care, mainly because both my parents were drug addicts. After losing my mother when I was 12 years old, I moved out of my father’s house before age 18 and spent years couch surfing—bouncing around from friends to friends, and one girlfriend’s house to another. I slept in my car many cold nights when I was left with no other options. I struggled to keep up with bare necessities such as laundry and basic hygiene. However, I was far from your stereotypical homeless young man. My luck started to change once I was introduced to Zara and the Marin nonprofit Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity (AHO).

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Mill Valley Living: Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity – A Calling of the Heart
By Alexandra Fee

On January 21 2005 the Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity Project (AHO) was founded by Zara Babitzke to address a critical need for the growing numbers of homeless teens and young adults ages 16 to 25 in Marin that no one else was helping. AHO started as a calling of the heart when the first-ever program for young people 18 and over Zara both designed and directed for Sunny Hills Services (SHS) in 2003, lost funding.
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