Spotlighted solutions show the power of public-private partnerships to address persistent challenges and gaps.

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The migrant crisis is increasingly intertwined with the rapidly rising number of homeless youth.

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Families desperate for refuge from the winter cold remained unhoused through the winter.

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Newsom proposed a budget completely eliminating essential increases in funding for housing and services.

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A report discusses the ramifications of the end of federal funding for homeless youth.

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Once those funds expire, many will be scrambling to keep serving families in crisis.

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Host homes build off of a "history of resilience and resistance.”

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Janell Braxton, 30, continues to reckon with her time in the foster system.

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A recent study found 2.9 million children are impacted by eviction filings every year.

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Washington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags.

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LGBTQ youth are disproportionately homeless, facing unique challenges in finding affirming shelter.

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Delays and slow spending stalled some programs in their first year.

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Health and safety information on hundreds of young clients was made public.

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Illinois foster kids are staying in social workers' offices, conference centers and jails.

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By 2021, neglect was the leading cause the system removed teens from their families.

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A new report discusses the outlook on youth homelessness and current responses being undertaken.

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Evictions can have far-reaching consequences beyond a miserable day with a housing magistrate.

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Homeless teenagers and young adults are arriving at emergency shelters with more acute needs, but shelter providers strained of adequate staff and resources in the wake of the pandemic are less equipped to help them. In some places, youth face longer waitlists for shelter beds and few safe overnight alternatives.  

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Implemented in June, HB 1905 establishes a five-year budget of over $5 million to reduce homelessness among those aforementioned groups. Washington’s Office of Homeless Youth will be responsible for much of that budget, administering $1.6 million in flexible funding that lets people who are allotted those dollars determine how to spend them on transportation, telephone or other everyday expenses. It also will oversee the quadrupling to $2 million of the budget for a system of care grants and a $625,000 expansion of the housing stability for justice-involved youth program. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families will convene a new state rapid response team, with a budget of $1 million.

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Young people eventually released from Washington state’s foster care, juvenile or mental and behavioral health systems often do so without having reliable, steady housing already in place. For instance, the latest estimate is that 17% of young people leaving foster care were homeless at some point within a year of that exit.

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