Claire Barrett's future was put on hold when she became homeless.
She was sleeping on friends' floors after being kicked out of her home by her mother. "Things got pretty bad," she says. "I had to stop work, I had to stop doing my degree and felt guilty for putting people out by staying in their house."
Eventually, the local council found a place for the 21-year-old in a project run by youth homelessness charity Centrepoint in Derwentside, County Durham. Now her life is back on track: "Things are much better since I moved here." But things could have been very different if Centrepoint had not been there.
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