Consider the daily reality of a high school guidance counselor in a mid-sized Canadian city. She spends her mornings reviewing attendance records that flag a fifteen-year-old student, whom she knows to be sleeping in his car due to a sudden family eviction. Her professional mandate is to keep him enrolled, yet her resources are stretched thin between academic tutoring and coordinating with overburdened social services. She views early intervention not merely as an educational strategy, but as a critical public health imperative to prevent youth homelessness.