Even as young people's daily struggle to obtain housing and homelessness become a reality for a growing number of Canadians, Canada, with its high quality of life, is a country that has always had a long-standing global reputation. This article will aim to give the reader a better understanding of homeless youth. The focus will be on why they leave their homes, their life on the streets and the steps they are trying to take to be able to leave the streets. An important finding from this research suggests that “the street youth population is diverse, complex and heterogeneous.” According to Karabanow, made up of a number of subcultures, including street-hardened youth, squatters, group home kids, child welfare kids, soft-core twinkles , runaways, throwaways, refugees and immigrants, is the generic term for “street youth”. According to the Canadian Street Youth Enhanced Supervision Program, 1999-2003, the male/female ratio among street youth is approximately 2:1. The main reason given by street youth for leaving home was conflict with their parents. The main source of income for most street youth was welfare. Report of school dropout/permanent expulsion from school by more than 35% of street youth. “More than half of street youth reported emotional abuse or neglect and approximately 15% of street youth reported their families were homeless.” The number one reason young people leave home, according to Klodawsky, Aubry and Farrell, is "the pervasiveness of family conflict and violence." ". Most street youth, including Aboriginal people, have experienced home disruption, violence and abuse. A considerable number of them reported having to live in group homes, with foster families, in prison or in the middle of a newspaper...remaining homeless. With a prevalence rate greater than 10% among street youth, approximately 10 times (less than 1%) the reported prevalence among the general youth population, there is an easily curable STI called Chlamydia (Health Canada, 2006). . It is a disease that can be spread through sexual contact with an infected partner, orally or anally. Between 1999 and 2003, there was a constant increase in the prevalence among street women compared to that of men, which remained low (Health Canada, 2006). Gonorrhea is another sexually transmitted disease common among street youth. The prevalence of gonorrhea like Chlamydia is high among the street youth population and is 20 to 30 times higher than that of the general youth population. Additionally, as with Chlamydia infection, prevalence rates are much higher in women than in men. Health Canada, 2006).