On June 30th, USA Today published an article highlighting the disproportionate rates of homelessness among LGBTQ+ youth, especially Black and transgender teens. The article draws attention to the urgent need for community-led, data-informed solutions, and features insight from our very own Dr. Coco Auerswald.
In the piece, Dr. Auerswald emphasizes that youth are the experts in their own experiences and should be at the center of designing and leading responses to homelessness.
Recently, KCBS AM, All News San Francisco, highlighted the important work Dr. Auerswald and YAAH lead, in the KCBS feature segment titled, “How a UC Berkeley program is trying to solve youth homelessness.”
Click on the link below to listen to our 2 minute spotlight!
How a UC Berkeley program is trying to solve youth homelessness
Check out the article, “To understand youth experiencing homelessness, this UC Berkeley professor hires them,” published by UC Berkeley News on June 5th. This article provides a brief background on YAAH faculty lead, Dr. Auerswald, along with highlights from an interview with her in which she speaks of the lab. Dr. Auerswald emphasized the importance of bringing young people with lived experience onto the team as researchers.
Youth and Allies Against Homelessness is proud to announce that one of our YAAH Lab's undergraduate researchers, Kate Chung, has been selected as an Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship (URAP) Summer Fellow for her ongoing research on “Population Size Estimation of Youth Experiencing Homelessness.” The URAP Summer Fellowship supports undergraduate students and allows them to continue impactful research projects over the summer. In the lab, Kate uses capture-recapture methods to link administrative data from service providers.
Two of our amazing team members, Amber Peake and Shukri Suhir, were recently awarded UC Berkeley Class of 2025 Student Awards at the School of Public Health Commencement Ceremony on May 19th, 2025.
Dr. Coco Auerswald was recently honored with the Anne B. Stanton Award at the Larkin Street Youth Services’ 23rd annual Paving the Way Gala in San Francisco on May 8th. The award recognized Dr. Auerswald’s decades of work advancing equity, youth voice, and data-driven solutions to end youth homelessness.
In her speech, Dr. Auerswald reflected on her long-standing partnership with Larkin Street and the role young people hold in shaping her research. Read more about the event and award below!
The first-ever Young People to the Front (YP2F) Youth Homelessness Research Conference brought together a powerful mix of researchers, advocates, service providers, and young people to tackle one of Los Angeles’ most urgent and under-researched issues: youth homelessness. The event focused on bridging the gap between data, lived experience, and practical solutions to better support unhoused youth across the city.
We’re thrilled to share highlights from the International Conference on Youth Homelessness, which one of our postdocs, Benjamin Parry, recently attended! This marks the first event of its kind as researchers, practitioners, and policymakers worldwide gathered to discuss the future of youth homelessness prevention.
On Thursday February 27th, 2025, Professor Coco Auerswald & Assistant Researcher Sahra Nawabi visited the House of Senate in Washington D.C. to meet with the policy advisors and legislative aids of Senator Alex Padilla and Senator Adam Schiff. Here are the highlights:
Dr. Coco Auerswald will be a participating member on the Youth and Young Adult Working Group for the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH).
YAAH is eager to announce that Benjamin Parry and Laura Petry have joined will be joining our team as postdoctoral scholars.
On March 11th, 2024 we formally introduced the Guidelines to Prevent, Address, and End Youth Homelessness. You can find a link to the recording of this presentation here
YAAH is excited to announce that Maddy Cuyler will be the Project Coordinator for our Cal-ICH project as of, August 16. She brings thoughtfulness, humility, passion, strong MPH skills, and a commitment to ending homelessness to this position.
Greetings fellow advocates for youth experiencing homelessness,