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Dear friends, In April, as the COVID-19 virus was radically transforming our lives and world, we shared details about the Trust’s response, which included immediately redirecting funds toward emergency COVID-19 relief in Connecticut, streamlining our grant processes and offering flexible support to our grantee partners. At that point the impact of COVID-19 was just beginning […]

Two and half million children are homeless in America. In Boise, Idaho, 14-year-old Caydden Zimmerman struggles with the anxieties of middle school while living in a homeless shelter.

Join us for a morning of learning and inspiration as we highlight Connecticut’s progress in ending youth homelessness and strategize about what is needed to finish the job!

Resources for law enforcement, schools, state and local governments, and State Advisory Groups to understand and address the intersections between juvenile justice and youth homelessness.

Chapin Hall just released the most comprehensive study on LGBTQ youth homelessness to date. Megan Gibbard Kline, Director of A Way Home America, shares how we can use this new data to change these sobering stats.

We know housing is at the core of ending homelessness. We also know we can’t stop there.

Without an accurate count of how many young people are living without a home on their own, there can’t be effective policy. So at the end of January activists and volunteers in Connecticut will try to find and engage every young person between the ages of 13 and 24 who is homeless or unstably housed. Read […]

An unprecedented look into the scope and urgency of youth homelessness in America.

“It all comes down to this: we have a voice, and it needs to be heard.” Jay Perry, youth researcher at the Youth Action Hub, perfectly summed up the motivation for the author reading/community discussion on LGBTQ youth homelessness.

Aimee Hendrigan was in Baltimore for the launch of the 100-Day Challenge to end youth homelessness. Here’s what she saw and why she is excited about this dynamic process.

Meet the researchers at the Youth Action Hub. Smart, resilient, and dedicated to making it easier for the young folks in Connecticut that are struggling like they once did.

Meet four of the young people who were housed during A Way Home America’s 100 Day Challenge.

Ten key principles and policy recommendations to help ensure that a youth’s involvement with the juvenile justice system does not increase the likelihood that they will experience homelessness, and that youth experiencing homelessness receive the services and supports they need instead of being cited, arrested, charged, or incarcerated.

Two members of the National Youth Forum on Homelessness are following three communities as they undertake 100-Day Challenges to end youth homelessness.

A practical step-by-step roadmap for anyone leading the organization and execution of the count of youth experiencing homelessness in their community.

Actions and strategies to end youth homelessness prepared for the new administration.

A series of papers on ending youth homelessness that capture information from practitioners in the field about the strategies they find most successful to prevent and end homelessness among youth.

Preview of the 100-day challenges in Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Austin to end youth homelessness.