Youth Committee

The Purpose of the Youth Committee will be to align goals and develop shared strategies and collaborative practices across systems, agencies, programming and funding streams that work to prevent and end youth homelessness. The committee will act as a collaborative table bringing together transitional age youth with lived experience of homelessness, youth service providers, county and city government representatives, and other stakeholders to build a coordinated response to youth homelessness.

• Design, implement, and operate collaborative processes for parallel systems working with transitional age youth experiencing homelessness (Homeless response system, Child welfare system, Juvenile Justice System, Education System, etc.).
• In consultation with the Youth Advisory Board, develop recommendations for TAY specific funding.
• Shape policy and provide oversight for TAY specific coordinated entry access points and protocols.
• Monitor system and provider-level performance for the youth homeless response system; provide progress updates and recommendations to the Leadership Board.
• Facilitate inclusion of TAY service providers into funding opportunities.
• Apply a racial equity framework in order to advance fairness and justice in all we do.
• Design specific strategies and programming to respond to the unique needs of different TAY subpopulations:

• • Pregnant and parenting youth

  • Undocumented migrant youth

  • Juvenile Justice Impacted youth

  • Foster, child welfare impacted youth

  • BIPOC youth

  • LGBTQ+ identified youth

  • Minors (18 and under)