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72 Above: Taking a moment out, Christiane and John discuss their latest client. Below: One of the best ways to establish contacts is through challenging the kids to a game. " The goal we set depends on each contact's need. We are there to plug them into the proper places where they can get their needs fulfilled. Most of the kids we run into on the streets are hard -core runaways. They don 't want to know shit about their parents. They don 't want their parents to know where they are. They don 't want to deal with their parents . " Maybe they need a job, a place to crash for the night, or food . We know of places they can go. We also know a lot of employment agencies. " There is a lot of physical touch and it's important to the kids on the street beeause life out there is cold . " If we were to say to them 'we care about you ' they wouldn't understand it in the way we meant it. A whole lot of people have told them that. Their pimps have told them that, their parents have told them that and they got screwed by them. They got hurt by them. So they find refuge on the streets-it's a sanctuary. "What I' m really working with is myself. Since I started at Harry' s Mother I've opened up a whole new area of my own life, my personal life."