Youth Homelessness is a growing problem in Brandon and the surrounding area. The first Point in Time count revealed that almost one-half of people who were homeless in Brandon were also under the age of 30. This plan was developed with directed outcomes and objectives that will make a measurable difference in preventing, reducing and ending youth homelessness in Brandon. Accompanying this plan is a Strategic Framework that serves as a road map for implementing the recommendations of A Place to Call Home’s Steering Committee.

A Place to Call Home: Brandon’s Plan to End Youth Homelessness sets out clear goals to ending youth homelessness in Brandon, and focusses on issues of rural migration to urban centres. Youth homelessness has both human and financial costs, and in this respect, Brandon is no different from other communities. In Brandon however, strains on housing, low vacancy rates in rental housing and strains on the emergency system require solutions to address systems as a whole, and not only frontline responses. Additionally, while much work has been done to broaden the public view of homeless individuals, much work still remains to engage the public understanding of homelessness as broader than street homelessness