Youth Homelessness Should Be Rare, Brief, and One-Time
Part I: Principles and Prevention: Reducing the Number of Youth Experiencing Homelessness
This paper provides an introduction to the importance of addressing youth homelessness, overall strategies that the State of California should employ to ensure youth homelessness is rare, brief, and one-time, and a focus on specific strategies the State should employ to prevent youth homelessness.
Part II: Decreasing the Time a Youth Remains Homeless and the Percentage of Youth who Return to Homelessness After Exiting
This paper first provides recommended principles to ensure that episodes of youth homeless are brief and that youth who exit homelessness do not return to homelessness, followed by specific policy recommendations.
COVID-19 Youth Impact Survey
For the Good of Us All
Addressing the Needs of Our Unhoused Neighbors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this report, based on a review of a wide range of evidence, we summarize the relevant public health principles and knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 and its associated illness, COVID-19. We then highlight the reasons for the greater rates of illness and mortality of PEH before the pandemic. We link these causes to their higher vulnerability to SARS-CoV-2 infection, severe disease and mortality. We then provide an overview of the latest policy developments in the COVID-19 response to homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area and in six other cities. We conclude with recommendations regarding testing and housing to protect society’s most vulnerable people and the broader communities in which they live from preventable morbidity and mortality.
On the COVID-19 Front Line and Hurting
Addressing the Needs of Providers forYouth Experiencing Homelessness inBerkeley and Alameda County
This report consists of two parts. The first part is an analysis of Alameda County’s Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS) data for a one year period from (7/2018-6/2019), and of Berkeley’s HMIS data over an 11-year period (2006-2017). The second part of this report is a qualitative needs assessment of services providers for YEH recruited from a range of organizations, including shelters, transitional housing sites, health care clinics, and school districts. The interviews, conducted in April 2020, revealed recurring themes regarding the needs and challenges experienced by YEH-serving organizations.
