Jason Vallejo The gap in sheltering the homeless from ages 18 to 24 contributes to the problem of chronic homelessness DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Jason Vallejo received a call from a school counselor who said he had a young man in his office just four months away from finishing his master’s degree at UT Dallas.
But the young man had just come out, and his father had ordered him out of the house by that weekend. Vallejo, who was with Dallas Hope Charities at the time, didn’t have a bed available for the young man at the time.
A few months later, he heard the young man had taken his own life. Vallejo left DHC when his husband was offered a job in Austin.