Wednesday, July 13, 2016 2:30 – 5:00
New Haven, CT
The Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH) is very pleased to offer a special opportunity for you to participate in a hands-on training to assist six community teams across Connecticut in using a promising community-based model to tackle youth homelessness at a local level. The training will provide community teams with tools to lay the foundation for building a coordinated and effective collaboration between local schools, youth, and community service providers to improve local response to youth homelessness. Heather Mosher, Ph.D., of the Institute for Community Research, is a social/community psychologist with expertise in using research tools in ways that are fun, easy, and effective at engaging communities in learning and strategic action. In partnership with CCEH and a team in Torrington, Connecticut, Dr. Mosher led the development and evaluation of a model for communities to tackle youth homelessness at a local level by:
Learning about the barriers that exist for youth in accessing available resources and how to improve youth access to these resources
Building the capacity of schools and community organizations to identify unstably housed youth and connect them to help
Improving resources, programs and policies to reflect the needs and preferences of youth
At this workshop, your community team will:
Receive a copy of the guidebook that provides tools and step-by-step instructions on how to plan and implement a local school-community initiative to address youth homelessness in communities across Connecticut;
Learn best practices for developing a school-community initiative with youth voice;
Build consensus among your community team members on your primary goal and milestones to achieve this goal; and
Come away with a preliminary plan for your community that will increase collaboration and identify strategies for improving local community response to youth homelessness.