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Youth Inclusion in California's Point-in-Time Counts: A Statewide Capacity Building Effort

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Jessica Lin, MPH , School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Laura Petry, MSW , School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Emeryville, CA
Jessica Reed, MSW , School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Shahera Hyatt, MSW , California Homeless Youth Project, Sacramento, CA
Colette Auerswald, MD, MS , Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
Hidden in plain sight, youth have been historically overlooked and undercounted in local, state, and federal efforts to enumerate the homeless population. But efforts to better understand the prevalence of youth homelessness are underway, as 2013 marked the first year HUD required communities to include unaccompanied minors and transition age youth in their biannual Point-in-Time (PIT) counts of unsheltered homeless individuals.

In 2013, our team from the University of California and California Homeless Youth Project conducted an assessment of youth inclusion across California communities in the 2013 PIT count. This project led to an ongoing initiative to provide technical assistance and limited seed grants to California communities seeking to improve youth inclusion in their 2015 counts. Our team is currently conducting regional trainings across California, will provide seed grants to traditionally under-resourced communities seeking to implement youth-focused count methods in 2015, and will conduct intensive technical assistance with two communities over the course of eight months leading to the 2015 PIT count.

In this workshop, we will: describe the importance of youth inclusion in PIT counts for programs and policy on the local, state, and national level; discuss lessons learned to date during regional trainings; describe initiatives communities are planning regarding youth inclusion in the 2015 PIT count; and provide recommendations for local initiatives and policy-level interventions to develop clearer pictures of youth homelessness in California and nationwide.

Learning Areas:

Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Discuss challenges to including youth in traditional Point-inTime (PIT) count models for counting unsheltered homeless populations. Identify key partnerships and strategies being developed by communities to improve the PIT count’s youth inclusiveness. Describe a technical assistance effort underway in California to promote the inclusion of unsheltered minors and youth in the 2015 PIT count.

Keyword(s): Homelessness, Youth

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the co-investigator of multiple studies focusing on youth homelessness. Among my scientific interests has been the development of strategies to increase our understanding of this population and strategies for assessing the size and scope of youth homelessness in California.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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