Feb 25, 2021 | Guest Blogs
[By Ann Willemsen, Director, UPD Consulting] UPD Consulting, in collaboration with the Baltimore Department of Housing and Community Development and Baltimore City Schools, recently designed a model program which connects affordable housing opportunities to elementary...
Feb 16, 2021 | Guest Blogs
Part 1: What We Learned Through the Washington State Student Partnership on Student Homelessness [This was originally published on Building Changes’s website. See the original post here.] According to a 2018-19 report from the Department of Children Youth &...
Jan 19, 2021 | Guest Blogs
By Bréyon Austin Pro Bono Coordinator at Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco I’ve always known I wanted to be an attorney. My mom used to say I decided that at age seven and stuck with it. And it’s true, through being homeless in high...
Jan 14, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SHC Perspectives
In mid-December, the Coalition to End Youth Homelessness in Maryland and the University of Maryland – College Park’s Fostering Terp Success Program hosted a virtual convening for Maryland higher education institutions and community organizers to discuss...
Nov 2, 2020 | Guest Blogs, Youth Perspective
Siblings in the Lives of Youth Experiencing HomelessnessMany children and youth go through the experience of homelessness with siblings. Depending on birth order and family dynamics, siblings can be a source of support and strength, pain and trauma, or both. Two...
Nov 2, 2020 | Guest Blogs, Youth Perspective
Siblings in the Lives of Youth Experiencing HomelessnessMany children and youth go through the experience of homelessness with siblings. Depending on birth order and family dynamics, siblings can be a source of support and strength, pain and trauma, or both. Two...