Faces of intergenerational poverty: State program highlights success stories

SANDY — Alexus Martinez was stone-faced and matter-of-fact Monday as she described how she became homeless at age 16 and "learned not to depend on anyone else but myself."She said she grew up with role models addicted to drugs — heroin and pain pills.She said she's watched as three of her six brothers also fell into the thralls of drug addiction.To Martinez — now 20, a single mother with a 1-year-old son, Aurelius — that was their choice."They grew up just like me," Marti