The state of youth homelessness in Australia is undeniably cooked. Adding to the whole situation is the ridiculous perceptions some folks have toward homelessness and how people come to be in that situation. Just so you’re across it, Homelessness Australia‘s stats outline that the predominant reason young people experience homelessness is because of family breakdown – not for the reason some people’s minds might gravitate to like drug abuse and the like.

We all need to chip in to help those in need, and that won’t happen until the stigmas surrounding Australia’s thousands of young people experiencing homelessness are changed. To do this, we need the next generation of decent humans to step up and create awareness of why young people experience homelessness.

The Salvation Army once again ran its ‘Hidden Others: Youth Homelessness Short Film Competition‘ this year. Entrants between the ages of 12 and 24 were asked to create a minute-long video for Instagram that would create awareness of youth homelessness in some way. As you’ll see, the below entries are superbly created and overwhelmingly disturbing.

12-18 CATEGORY

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXXIKWMDBp0/?taken-by=hiddenothers

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXXIkKpDrpu/?taken-by=hiddenothers

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXXJfJ_jVEX/?taken-by=hiddenothers

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXeFIyMDVKH/?taken-by=hiddenothers

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXeEwLND5F3/?taken-by=hiddenothers

19-24 CATEGORY

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXXHXY6DD9f/?taken-by=hiddenothers

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXeFhC2DY4M/?taken-by=hiddenothers