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Publication Date: 2021
Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) are vulnerable to multiple adverse health outcomes. Connecting YEH with housing is critical to addressing youth homelessness and to preventing long-term negative health consequences among this vulnerable population. Using administrative data, this study aims to explore correlates of YEH's sustainability in two major housing programs: permanent supportive housing (PSH) and rapid re-housing (RRH) programs.
Publication Date: 2020
Background
Evidence on the effectiveness of programs serving unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness remains limited and mixed, and we know little about the factors that contribute to participant engagement and program implementation across contexts.
Objective
In this meta-synthesis of current findings on youth interventions, we explore the following research questions: 1) What are common programmatic or contextual factors that researchers...
Organization: Chapin Hall
Publication Date: 2020
While both urban and rural areas share similar rates of youth homelessness, in rural regions the issue is less visible and less researched. This qualitative study explores the challenges that rural communities in the U.S. face in addressing youth homelessness, the ways they are responding to those challenges, and opportunities to strengthen rural service delivery models. It builds on previous Voices of Youth Count research on rural youth homeless...
Organization: Chapin Hall
Publication Date: 2019
This Research-to-Impact brief is the ninth in a series. It draws on multiple research components from Voices of Youth Count (VoYC). Adolescence and young adulthood represent a critical developmental window. Every day that young people like Ray experience the stress of housing and educational instability represents a missed opportunity to support healthy development and promote successful transitions to adulthood. VoYC elevates the voices of young...
Publication Date: 2019
In the work to end youth homelessness, there is general agreement that young people need stable housing, permanent connections, education and/or employment,and an overall sense of well-being to succeed and thrive—and to make sure theynever experience homelessness again. Indeed, to receive federal funding throughthe Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, community-based grantees must measureand report on outcomes in these core areas. To date, however, th...
Publication Date: 2017
Could an AI decision aid improve housing systems that assist homeless youth? There are nearly 2 million homeless youth in the United States each year. Coordinated entry systems are being used to provide homeless youth with housing assistance across the nation. Despite these efforts, the number of homeless youth still living on the street remains very high. Motivated by this fact, we initiate a first study to create AI decision aids for improving...
Publication Date: 2017
Youth homelessness is a problem characterized by high levels of vulnerability. The extent to which couch surfing — moving from one temporary housing arrangement to another — is part of youth homelessness is not well understood. Chapin Hall's Voices of Youth Count, a national research initiative, involves a multicomponent approach to studying youth homelessness. This study reports emerging findings regarding couch surfing and homelessness primaril...