June 2012
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“One of the themes that came up repeatedly during yesterday’s broadcast...”
– Shahera Hyatt, Director of the California Homeless Youth Project (in response to the USICH presentation of the Framework to End Youth Homelessness)
USICH Framework to End Youth Homelessness: 3...
Yesterday, The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness held a live stream panel meeting that presented the federal plan, Opening Doors, renewed framework to end youth homelessness by 2020. The panel was chaired by Secretary Kathleen Sebellius and included: Nan Roman (President and CEO of the National alliance to End Homelessness), Dana Scott (Colorado State Coordinator for Homeless...
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Come Together, Right Now. Over Youth.
In our 2008 report, Voices from the Street: A Survey of Homeless Youth by Their Peers, the number one recommendation we heard from youth was to undo the criminalization of homelessness, which they saw as exacerbating their housing instability. So it struck me when today, our Twitter timeline was filled with tweets that linked to the recent article by USA Today, “Cities’ homeless...
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Employing Homeless Youth
Yesterday, we at the HYP attended “Vocationalizing Youth Services”, a regional training hosted by the Homeless Youth Capacity Building Project and facilitated by Larry Robbin, an expert in the field of job services. Prior to this training I had a strong conviction that education was the only means of obtaining stability for youth. This conviction was heavily influenced by my own...
Homeless Valedictorians
In a recent article by Marquise Brown, the high school senior from Chicago’s Gary Comer College Prep tells his story about how he became homeless “one summer morning” and was still able to become his high school’s Valedictorian. At a young age, Brown and his siblings lost their mother to substance abuse and grandmother to lung disease. Brown and his siblings were forced to live with his aunt, a...
