NCHCW works directly with youth subject matter experts to find and eliminate the gaps between systems through which children, youth, and families needlessly fall into homelessness and human trafficking. Public resources must be predictable, synchronized, flexible, and offered to folks regardless of whether they live in a place with lots of people in need or just one. NCHCW also seeks to help households build wealth by making sure that everyone is aware of HUD's Family Self-Sufficiency Program. If people are going to build wealth we can never, ever penalize them for working or increasing their assets. American social policy must adjust to this reality.
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Hey, housers, are we ready to talk about these "pauses" in the voucher program and what is really going on? #HCV #Affordablehousing #privatization #psh #PHAs #pbra #pbv #chcdf https://lnkd.in/ejin2jjq https://lnkd.in/eKTY_bMN
The #CampusHousingAffordabilityAct helps to ensure that foster youth and alumni can benefit from the community of dormitories and the normal college experience that so many of our sons and granddaughters are preparing for right now. #highereducation #selfsufficiency #affordablehousing
What an amazing week! I was honored to join NFYI subject matter experts, Michael A. Miser & Eugenia Wallace along with lead co-sponsors Reps. Landsman, Beatty, Bacon, and Lawrence to highlight the need for the Campus Housing Affordability Act #CHAA which serves as an important complement to the youth-written #FSHO. “This thoughtful legislation eliminates artificial barriers within HUD’s regulations that close off the typical college experience for otherwise eligible young people. Research indicates that freshman and sophomores who live in college dorms have higher GPAs, graduation rates, lifetime earnings, and build more lifelong friendships than their off-campus counterparts.?We are proud to support Rep. Landsman’s efforts to ensure that youth with Housing Choice Vouchers are not prohibited from immersing themselves in the academic experience just like their higher income peers.” Jamole Callahan April M Curtis-Rivera, MSW, LSW Rebecca Louve Yao NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOUSING AND CHILD WELFARE National Foster Youth Institute FCAA #highereducation #affordablehousing #college #fosteryouth #selfsufficiency #endhomelessness #endhomelessnessbeforeitstarts.
#NCHCW on the road.
Grateful for active and engaged attendees in the NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOUSING AND CHILD WELFARE session at #FFTA2024 in Denver, CO. The solutions we discussed that eliminate the fear of homelessness by guaranteeing permanent housing as a platform for economic self-sufficiency for emancipating foster youth are more important than ever. We also discussed the numerous ways to offer permanent housing choice vouchers to families at risk of homelessness. After walking miles and miles through breathtakingly beautiful Denver - it's clear that the status quo is not working. We can and must re-establish the seamless bidirectional continuum from prevention to institutional care and everything in between. Our neighbors are suffering all over the Denver streets - and everywhere else. We will do better. https://lnkd.in/eC_G_wPG
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On my way home from #CCEH2024 Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness 21st annual convening where we celebrated the unique and inspirational partnership between Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno of the CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING & Commissioner Beth Bye! Together they fearlessly and enthusiastically created a Head Start on Housing #HSOH for Connecticut's homeless children. Brava to Connecticut for using expedited access to HUD's housing choice voucher program for Head Start families so that they can have an immediate platform to move towards economic self-sufficiency. Everybody in the state is better off when children have stable homes. I'm immensely grateful to the NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOUSING AND CHILD WELFARE team Betsy Cronin, Olivia Capasso, Jade Hernandez, Stacey Gerber and all of the Head Start family support workers who made this possible. Finally, to the parents who enroll their children in Head Start's voluntary early education programming despite being homeless and facing numerous obstacles - we see you, we value you, and we are actively prioritizing you and your families for affordable housing. Thank you for your perseverance and your patience with the housing epistemic community. They are learning from you and will get better.
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"Can I interest you in some information on the Foster Youth to Independence Initiative?" Imagine knowing that youth wrote a distribution mechanism for HUD's housing choice voucher program that creates a guaranteed platform for economic security for three to five years ( young people can earn an additional two years by working or going to school or in anyway working towards self-sufficiency) and then failing to disclose that information to young people who are aging out. #FYI is now FIVE years old. And we've (NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOUSING AND CHILD WELFARE ) have trained everyone on it (free of charge). At this point, youth who have reached adulthood and foster care shouldn't even be thinking about homelessness, let alone fearing it. Here's the good news: every time you read a human interest story about how desperate foster youth pick up the phone and force everyone your community to embrace this elegantly straightforward solution – that closely mirrors, what we all do with our own kids to help them become independent, accomplished adults. Every time you read a human interest about youth homelessness you should call that nonprofit or that public agency and say "Can I interest you in some information about FYI?" in this article you have read about Anne Carelli who did exactly that! I was happy to be her accomplice! Monica Scott from the DFACS is AMAZING as well and she will change lives in her new role in the state!!! Thank you, as always to the original authors and administrators who wrote this and put it into place in 2019 Jamole Callahan Shalita O'Neale Joshua Hatch April M Curtis-Rivera, MSW, LSC Christopher Patterson ???????? Michael Outrich Eshawn Peterson, MBA, CDE?, PCC
My #PublicServiceRecognitionWeek #PSRW #PSRW2024 Posts will start with Mandy Griego! This Notice in the Federal Register has wide implications for BUILDING #affordablehousing. Those who take the time to read it will learn how much housing funding (both public and private) can be leveraged to ACQUIRE, CONSTRUCT, and REHABILITATE bricks and mortar units using the agility of FYI/FUP, other vouchers AND the entire Project Based Rental Assistance (#PBRA) methodology. This public servant and her colleagues have distilled this down - look at the complexity here that they have managed to make accessible to the general public! And I say this as a person who closely guards the purity of the TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE mechanism. But it is true - vouchers can be used to make multi-million dollar financing work. As a result, families, young adults, and single folks of all ages and abilities will gain access to a home of their own. Learn how here: https://lnkd.in/evZcD4Wy
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