Ending Youth Homelessness
in Your Community
NAEH Conference, July 22, 2013
Eric Grumdahl, USICH
Curtis Porter and Resa Matthew, Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), Administration on Children, Youth
and Families (ACYF), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services
Federal Framework to End
Youth Homelessness • The Obama Administration set the goal to end
youth homelessness by 2020
• 2012 amendment to Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
• Framework adopted as interagency approach involving 19 federal agencies
• Framework defines two key strategies and four core outcomes
• Developed recognizing the critical work & partnerships to drive progress from the field
Two key strategies
Strategy I: Getting to Better Data
• A confident estimate of youth homelessness
• Data coordination, youth PIT strategy, and household survey
Strategy II: Building Capacity for Service Delivery
• A research‐informed intervention model
• Review research and apply to intervention strategies
• Increased evidence of effective interventions
• Identify and scale‐up evidence‐based practices and increase rigorous evaluation
• Gaps analysis
• Investigate funding and capacity needs of programs
Coordinate RHYMIS and
HMIS
Align data standards
Assess integration
Improved data
Reduced burden on grantees
Local Youth PIT
Counts
Collaboration of schools (LEAs), RHY providers,
and CoCs
Pilot methods in volunteer sites
Lessons for capturing youth
data in PIT counts
Improved data in participating sites
National Study
Youth-Inclusive National
PIT Count
National Prevalence Study
Confident estimate
Improved data on needs and
characteristics
Periodic Estimates
Integrate National Study methods
with coordinated data systems
Longitudinal counts and data on
characteristics
Better intervention models
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Getting to Better Data
Better data over time will inform the refinement of the Intervention Model and impact decisions about programs for youth experiencing homelessness
Key points on the Preliminary
Intervention Model • Research‐informed
• Preliminary
• Outcomes‐driven
• Centered on risk and protective factors to encourage targeted intervention strategies
• Illustrates multiple areas of risk, protection and outcomes. This reinforces the need for contribution and coordination among multiple services and systems.
How Communities Can Use the
Framework • Use HMIS and other relevant data to understand the scale,
profiles, and needs of local youth (18-24)
• Build collaborations among CoCs, RHYA providers, school liaisons, education officials and others serving youth experiencing homelessness
• Align program outcomes and performance measures with the Framework’s four core outcomes
• Use the Preliminary Intervention Model in planning your community’s responses to homeless youth, and contribute the ongoing dialogue to refine it
• Implement coordinated assessment in your community and ensure it meets the needs of youth
Runaway & Homeless Youth
Program
93 70 102 39
76 168 131
165
Total Applications Reviewed = 791
Funded Not Funded
National Communications System
2012 Funding Levels
Program Grantees Funding
Street Outreach Program 138 $16.3 mil
Basic Center Program 321 $48.2 mil
Transitional Living
Program
205 $39.4 mil
TOTAL 664 $103.9 mil
RHY Data Collection
•RHYMIS/HMIS Integration
• Collaborative effort among ACF/FYSB, HUD, USICH
• All RHY grantees report data using HMIS
• 2015 for full integration
•Youth Point-in-Time Count
• Collaborative effort among USICH, ACF/FYSB, 9 RHY grantees, HUD, Education
• Strategy for counting unaccompanied youth
• Process evaluation
RHY Data Collection
•Street Outreach Program Data Collection Study
• 11 SOP grantees collect quantitative and qualitative data
• Purpose to better understand the service needs of RHY youth
• Use of focus groups and personal interviews
•Transitional Living Program Evaluation
• 15 TLP grantees nationwide
• Learn about the effects of the TLP services on youth
• Process and outcome evaluation
Special Populations
•Rural Youth
• Support Systems for RHY (SSRHY) 5-year Demonstration
• Collaboration between FYSB and CB
• Examine the process in forming collaborations/partnerships to serve and support rural youth
•LGBTQ Youth
• 3-year capacity building demonstration
• Identify gaps in service
• Identify screening and assessment tools
• Identify promising and evidence-based practices
Thanks for what you do!
Administration on Children, Youth & Families (ACYF), Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services (HHS)
Curtis Porter, Director, Runaway and Homeless Youth Program, Family & Youth Services Bureau, [email protected]
Resa Matthew, Director, Division of Adolescent Development and Support, Family & Youth Services Bureau, [email protected]
U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
Eric Grumdahl, Policy Director, [email protected]
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb www.usich.gov
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