More Than a Roof Over Their Heads: A Toolkit for Guiding Transition Age Young Adults to Long-term Housing Success
Description:
This Toolkit represents a product of the Young Adult Housing workgroup, which included both youth and adult service providers from government and voluntary sectors, advocates and policy makers. (Authors)
Content:
This Toolkit represents a product of the Young Adult Housing workgroup, which included
both youth and adult service providers from government and voluntary sectors, advocates and
policy makers.The group met monthly for nearly one year, defining the problem, identifying
successful practices in the adult system, (which was defined for this process as services clients
don’t age out of,) and weaknesses in the adult system, determining what works and what does
not work in the youth housing system and clarifying potential policy issues that might impact
younger clients without providers’ knowledge. Over the course of the year it became clear to
all participants that this cooperative process and resulting document were both unique and
important. The multiple perspectives at the table, checking assumptions and exploring
promising models, philosophies and approaches, have already impacted the participating
organizations’ practices and forged new lines of communication across systems that share
clients, but rarely collaborate. The process of creating this guide thus represents in itself a
promising model for establishing important dialogues across systems, a process that warrants
continuation and replication in other areas of social service. (Authors)
Type of Resource:
Toolkits/Curricula/Training Materials
Publication Date:
2011
Location:
New York