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" More than $200,000 has already been raised for My Friend&amp;#039;s Place, a Los Angeles support center for homeless youth, following Sunday night&amp;#039;s Video Music Awards. During the award ceremony, 22-year-old Jesse Helt accepted Miley Cyrus&amp;#039;s award in the Video of the Year category (for Miley&amp;#039;s already classic &amp;quot;Wrecking Ball&amp;quot;). Helt gave a moving speech about the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youth across the United States &amp;quot;who are starving, lost and scared for their lives.&amp;quot; Helt, who is currently seeking support from My Friend&amp;#039;s Place, said he had &amp;quot;survived&amp;quot; in shelters all over Los Angeles. Miley cried while he spoke. Her plans for both Helt and My Friend&amp;#039;s Place appear to just getting started: &amp;quot;Now is just the beginning for me,&amp;quot; Miley adds in a video message. Jesse Helt&amp;#039;s mother Linda helped identify him following his big moment. She told The Oregonian he had grown up in Salem, Oregon, but moved to Los Angeles a few years back &amp;quot;because he wanted to make it on his own.&amp;quot; Like many young people, Helt reportedly wants to break into the worlds of acting and modeling in particular, but fell on hard times along the way. At one point, his mom said, he called home and told her he &amp;quot;was living in a bush.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s a big fan of Miley, as you&amp;#039;d expect (and as you should be, really), also noting that &amp;quot;Miley has taken Jesse to her heart and I&amp;#039;m really glad for [that].&amp;quot;  Though Linda Helt said her son had been planning to return to Oregon (at least temporarily) using money Miley had provided, confirmation of an outstanding warrant may complicate his travel plans. Court officials told Inside Edition Tuesday that a warrant for Helt&amp;#039;s arrest in Oregon remains in place for probation violation, following a 2010 incident (described as an attempted burglary), which saw him charged with both criminal trespassing and criminal mischief.  My Friend&amp;#039;s Place executive director, Heather Carmichael, spoke with The Daily Mail, describing Helt as &amp;quot;incredibly brave.&amp;quot; Helt met Miley when she visited My Friend&amp;#039;s Place last week and met with some of the residents. &amp;quot;I really feel like that Miley has a genuine intention to raise awareness,&amp;quot; Carmichael said. Miley has apparently committed to helping him out, she added, saying she&amp;#039;s confident &amp;quot;they are working on a plan that is going to benefit him.&amp;quot;    Miley planned the charitable moment to capitalize on the cultural cache she carries, she explained to Ryan Seacrest during an appearance on his radio show Monday. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s going to be talk, so what do I want them to talk about? If I&amp;#039;m going to be given this loud of a voice and this big of an image and this big of a platform and this huge of an opportunity to talk to young people in American right now, what am I really trying to say?&amp;quot; she told Seacrest.  Miley has responded to all of the Jesse news via Twitter as well, and addressed all the buzz about the arrest warrant.    People who are homeless have lived very hard lives. Jesse included. \u2014 Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 26, 2014      I hope that this can be the start of a national conversation about youth homelessness and how to end it. \u2014 Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 26, 2014      Does looking down upon the homeless help people excuse their inaction? \u2014 Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 26, 2014      The media never fails to disappoint. You&amp;amp;#39;ve chosen to go after Jesse instead of covering the issue of youth homelessness :( \u2014 Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 26, 2014      While they obsesses over one homeless mans legal issue lets help the other 1.6 million homeless youth http://t.co/VE6P9yfAVX \u2014 Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 26, 2014   So what do you think about Miley&amp;#039;s date? Would you do the same for someone if you could? Let us know in the comments! MORE: Miley Cyrus Says She Is, Katy Perry Says She Isn&amp;#039;t. So, Are You A Feminist? Teenage Miley Cyrus Impersonator Gets Awesome Shout-Out From Miley Onstage! From Hannah Montana to Bangerz : Miley&amp;#039;s Wild Style Transformation! Photo Credit: Getty Images Originally Posted On: Cosmopolitan "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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