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

Core Outcomes

Wellbeing

Education/ Employment

Permanent Connections

Stable Housing

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.

Preliminary Intervention Model

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, curtis.porter@acf.hhs.gov

Resa Matthew, Director, Division of Adolescent Development and Support, Family & Youth Services Bureau, resa.matthew@acf.hhs.gov

U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness

Eric Grumdahl, Policy Director, eric.grumdahl@usich.gov

www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb www.usich.gov

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