The Youth Homelessness Prevention Convening will take place virtually February 1st from 2:00-4:00 ET | 1:00-3:00 CT | 12:00-2:00 MT | 11:00-1:00 PT each day. Participants will receive unique call-in information directly from Zoom for each day they have registered for the Funders Institute and will receive reminders with call-in information the evening before and the day of. Please reach out to Tabitha Blackwell, Director of Networks and Programs, if you have questions.
We will be updating this agenda on a regular basis. Please note that this agenda is subject to change without notice.
|
2:00 ET |
Welcome and Opening |
|
2:15 ET |
Framing the Conversation |
|
An Overview of Success, Research, & Learning to Prevent Youth Homelessness During this kickoff convening, we'll be joined by Matt Morton and Anne Farrell from Chapin Hall who are working with their partners to develop, disseminate, and embed a cross-systems, national strategy to prevent youth homelessness. They have conducted extensive research and evaluation on various intersections that affect youth experience homelessness, including the areas we are focusing on during this series. Speakers:
|
|
|
|
Philantropy Supporting Efforts to Prevent Youth Homelessness Participants will hear from Charles Rutheiser with the Annie E. Casey Foundation about their work efforts to rethink how they partner both internally and externally to tackle the intersections that most directly affect young people. Participants will have the opportunity to then dive into a breakout session with partners working in one of our five specific areas outlined above. Speakers:
|
|
2:50 ET |
Concurrent Breakout Sessions |
|
|
Breakout 1: Education More than 1.3 million homeless students have been identified in our public schools—on average, there are 14 students experiencing homelessness in each public school across America. With the proper support, teachers and staff can help identify students who are facing crises and connect them to the right supports, such as housing, counseling, and legal assistance. Speakers:
Intersection Partners: |
|
|
Breakout 2: Health Supporting the health and well-being of young people is a critical component of a holistic approach to preventing and responding to homelessness. However, efforts to address homelessness often do not prioritize a focus on young people or provide tailored responses that are developmentally and culturally appropriate. Awareness is building about the need to promote mental health and well-being among young people, and with new funding opportunities and policy changes occurring in health care systems, there is growing momentum to adopt new approaches to improve the health of youth and young adults. These changes provide new opportunities to address the challenges facing providers who work with youth, particularly those who may be more vulnerable to poor health outcomes, like youth experiencing homelessness. Speaker:
Intersection Partners: |
|
|
Breakout 3: Family Engagement The Family Engagement Breakout Session will explore the ways in which engaging family, as defined by youth themselves, is a critical strategy to preventing and ending youth homelessness. Youth and young adults often move in and out of family situations as they are experiencing homelessness; if we want to truly meet youth where they are we must rethink how we engage the families they are connected to, and we must rethink how we define family engagement. Join the breakout to discuss new frameworks for family engagement from around the country that are testing innovative ways to integrate family engagement into their homeless response strategies and the ways philanthropy is partnering in the innovation. Speaker:
Intersection Partners: |
|
|
Breakout 4: Eviction Prevention for Young People Funders Together partners recently released a statement highlighting the impact of eviction on young people. In it, advocates warned that youth and young adults who experience eviction often face particularly challenging circumstances following eviction. A history of eviction, and the resulting credit damage, will only exacerbate a youth’s difficulty in finding units available for rent. Youth and young people who experience eviction and subsequent homelessness are also at much greater risk for exploitation by traffickers. For young people, the cascade of negative consequences due to eviction extends well beyond the loss of housing and can impact their lives for years or decades to come. This discussion will be an opportunity to learn more about the work underway to prevent young people from being evicted and what additional resources and support are needed to prevent youth homelessness after facing eviction. Speakers:
Intersection Partners: |
|
|
Breakout 5: Systems-Involvement Public systems in the United States are known to have been built on a foundation of structural racism, continuing to perpetuate racial inequity and harm among the communities most impacted by them today. Young people are at particularly high risk of the negative impacts of public systems like the child welfare, juvenile and criminal legal systems, among others. This discussion will offer an opportunity to learn more about the systemic harm and effects of these systems, their similarities, and the strategies that policymakers, advocates, and researchers are learning to mitigate and prevent such harm for youth at risk of experiencing homelessness. Speaker:
Intersection Partners: |
|
3:55 ET |
Invitation to Continue the Conversation |
Registration
To register for this webinar, please use the register button below.
Showing 1 reaction