SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Community Partnership of the Ozarks is hosting its first ever Homeless Youth Simulation which it’s leaders say isn’t an event, it’s a wake-up call.

Organizers gathered materials from similar programs across the state and real-life examples of kids near the Springfield area to make a simulation of what a young person experiencing homelessness might go through to try and get back on their feet.

The simulation is only an hour and a half long, and the amount of tasks participants will have to do makes it a little chaotic, but as Emily Fessler, the Continuum of Care Director for CPO says, that’s the point.

“It does give people the perspective of how complex things are,” she said, “and hopefully people will walk away understanding there’s actually a really big gap in

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