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Three-Part Series on Youth Homelessness
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Regulating Emergency Youth Shelters
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Challenging Stereotypes of Homeless Youth in the Media
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A Policy Agenda to Address California’s Homeless Youth
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Regulating Emergency Youth Shelters
Last week, the California Homeless Youth Capacity Building Project, a partnership between the John Burton Foundation and the California Coalition for Youth, released a policy brief on regulating emergency youth shelters. This brief, California Emergency Youth Shelters: Ensuring Services to Better Protect and Serve Homeless Youth highlights the challenges around the inconsistent interpretation and implementation of state regulations regarding these shelters. The policy brief also offers policy recommendations intended to address the problem, namely, by creating state regulations that are intended solely for emergency youth shelters, so they no longer have to meet the rigid criteria of regulations regarding group homes (an altogether different service for a different population of youth). The authors suggest that establishing state regulations for emergency youth shelters will prevent these California service providers from continuing to lose their fair share of federal funding available for these shelters, and will make it easier to provide appropriate services for this vulnerable population.
Posted March 28 2011