Youth Homelessness

Today on The Imprint Weekly Podcast we feature a great conversation that Fostering Media Connections hosted last month called “Homeless in Foster Care: What Would Really Keep Foster Youth from Sleeping in Offices.”

On this week’s podcast, we discuss Biden’s new nominee to lead child welfare and family support policies at the Department of Health and Human Services; the tragic murder of a social worker in Illinois; and it’s decision time for the Supreme Court on the Brackeen v.

In this Youth Voice Sound Off, writer Shay House gets comments from three people with knowledge and experience around youth homelessness.

Youth Voice writer Tessie Ottaway-Chung interviewed Sarah Rogers of Dove House Advocacy Services in Washington state.

Today New York City Council approved two bills that make emergency rental assistance more accessible to at-risk youth.

A report released Monday by Advocates for Children of New York found that more than 101,000 New York City students were homeless during the 2020-21 academic year.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded four California communities a combined $37 million to combat youth homelessness.

Employees with the Housing and Urban Development's Office of Public and Indian Housing won an award for an initiative helping transition-age youth.

More than $140 million in competitive federal grants will help combat youth homelessness in 33 communities across the United States.