New Cell Phone Application Brings Shelter Resources to Homeless Youth and Abused Women All Over the Nation

Los Angeles CA (PRWEB) March 15, 2011

Lauri Burns, Founder of The Teen Project has partnered with Trumpia to raise the bar on reaching Americas homeless youth. The newly released phone application allows youth all over the nation to text the word SHELTER with their ZIP code to the short code 99000 and receive a local shelter listing within 30 seconds.

The Teen Project national database of over 17,000 listings are now be available via a cell phone. Lauri and her team have also built applications for SOBER and ABUSED due to the diverse needs of our youth. While many youth are able to access cell phones, our research has shown that the most common problem, is not knowing who to call.

Due to Burns history, The Teen Project is expanding the ABUSED application to all battered women in the nation. Under the control of an abuser, with limited resources, this tool will empower women to get the help them need.

Lauri Burns grew up in the child dependency system after severe abuse. She spent her teen years on the streets addicted to heroin, as a known prostitute. Lauri went through treatment in 1987 after almost being killed by 2 gunmen on the streets. Seven years later, she became a foster mother. Lauri has fostered 28 of the most difficult teens over the past 18 years. Today she is an Information Technology Engineer and Program Manager at a Fortune 100 company.

In 2007, she founded The Teen Project for emancipated foster youth when she learned that 65% of youth leaving foster care at age 18 were instantly homeless. As stated in her book, Punished for Purpose, she knew her knowledge of technology would play a key role in reaching them, but until just recently she wasnt quite sure how. My life has come full circle, with our online database and now the phone app, I can reach all of the nations homeless youth -- where they live on the internet and their cell phones.

About The Teen Project

The Teen Project is a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to pick up where the laws fall short. Due to funding constraints, foster care ends at 18 and children are left without a home or family support. 70% express a desire to go to college, but only 3% ever get a chance. Foster kids are 3% of the US population, yet 40% of our homeless population. The Teen Project http://www.theteenproject.com is a parent to the parentless. Taken from their parents due to abuse, at age 18 our laws put them on the streets alone. I will not leave this life, knowing I left them there. (The Teen Project Founder- Lauri Burns)

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Media Contact: Cynthia Warden, Warden Entertainment Media

Office: 310-271-8409 Cell: 310-651-1840 Email:cwardenpr(at)msn(dot)com

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CLIPSHOW REVOLUTIONIZES HOME VIDEO-SHARING OVER THE INTERNET!

(PRWEB) April 13, 2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:April 10, 2000

CONTACT: Pamela Hayn

ClipShow,Inc.

Ph: 650/696-3165

phayn@clipshow.com

ClipShow Makes its Online Debut Showcasing New & Innovative "Digitization" Services for Video Enthusiasts!

San Mateo, Ca (April 10, 2000) - Establishing itself as the premiere,one-stop-shop for home video entertainment, ClipShow(http://www.clipshow.com) today announced the formal debut of its innovative online, home movie sharing service. The first multi-format,video management system of its kind, ClipShow is revolutionizing the way friends, families and organizations stay connected on the Web.ClipShow's state-of-the-art video processing services, streaming video network and easy-to-use video management system, provide the most complete way for video enthusiasts to watch, manage, process and share their home movies over the Internet."ClipShow is the most innovative way we have found to share the positive activities of our members, their families and our community. ClipShow's family oriented site provides a safe forum to bring together our network of ministries, nonprofit organizations and businesses," said ClipShow member, Jon Lewis, President of The Christian Networking Group.

Processing & Digitization

Eliminating time-consuming downloads and the need for costly digitization equipment, ClipShow offers its users a simple, easy means to share their home videos over the Internet. By simply mailing theirvideotapes (VHS, Hi-8, MiniDV, etc.) to ClipShow, users can have them encoded into a digital format, processed for optimal Internet viewingand uploaded directly into their personal, ClipShow "Video Album." Users with desktop video capabilities (e.g. iMac users or Webcam owners) can simply upload their digital video files directly to ClipShow for processing, optimization and posting. ClipShow provides processing services for a variety of digital video formats, including MPEG, AVI,QuickTime and Advanced Streaming Format (ASF).

Storage & Management

Once clips are posted, ClipShow users are provided with a variety of simple-to-use tools to effectively manage their videos. With the option of making their movies available for public or private viewing, users receive their own ClipShow "Video Album," a personal showcase to conveniently store, manage and display their videos.

Viewing & Sharing

Utilizing ClipShow's customized email feature, ClipShow members have the ability to invite friends and family to their own "movie premiere" with just the click of the mouse. Eliminating the frustration of receiving and trying to view large email video attachments, ClipShow email"tickets" contain convenient direct links to the members' personal"Video Album" for quick and easy viewing. Within the ClipShow Video Gallery, viewers have access to a myriad of simple-to-navigate showcases featuring pet, baby, vacation, wedding and many other types of clips. To enhance the video sharing experience, ClipShow utilizes its innovative processing system to allow virtually any user to view videos using either a 56k or broadband connection. ClipShow also supports all of the major streaming videos formats.

About ClipShow

Founded in 1999 by Charles Dauber, as a means of sharing videos of his newborn son over the Internet with friends and relatives around theworld, ClipShow provides innovative solutions to the biggest barriers facing Internet video sharing today; (1.) translating video into a digital format and (2.) viewing video on the Web with a dial-up connection.

"While searching for a way to share videos of my new baby, it became clear that there were other Internet users like myself who were encountering similar problems. Although multiple solutions were available for sharing photographs on the Internet, there was no equivalent service for home movies. ClipShow is the next logical step in helping people to stay connected with friends and family using the Internet,"

said Dauber.

Since its beta launch in October of 1999, ClipShow has rapidly become a premiere, destination site for video sharing on the Internet, providing an entirely new level of online interaction for its members. In December of 1999, Robin Richards, President of MP3.com, joined ClipShow's Board of Directors. Leading the way in the expanding online video services market, ClipShow has already developed an impressive base of streaming video and multimedia partners, including Dazzle Multi-Media, Microsoft, RealNetworks, Exodus, Intervu and Sun Microsystems.

Company Background

Based in San Mateo, California, with a second facility in Austin, Texas, ClipShow is a privately funded company led by an all-star cast of Silicon Valley start-up veterans from companies such as Copper MountainNetworks (NASDAQ: CMTN), Learn2.com (NASDAQ:LTWO), Nickelodeon On-line,@Home (NASDAQ:ATHM), and the Sun/Netscape Alliance.

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