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The Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) is a federal initiative designed to reduce the number of unaccompanied youth (including parenting youth), under age 25, who are experiencing homelessness as defined by HUD. YHDP was co-developed between the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Youth and Young Adults (YYA) with lived experience of homelessness.
YHDP must be Youth Led and Youth Informed as well as a community collaboration! A requirement for selection and success of a YHDP community is the development and on-going support of a Youth Advisory Board (YAB), consisting of YYA with lived experiences of housing instability and homelessness. The YAB informs the direction of YHDP and takes leadership in all decisions made. YAB members are equitably compensated for their time and expertise. Our YAB is at the front of everything YHDP does, but we also need community engagement and support. Representatives from all 20 of our Local Planning Bodies and organizations representing all these services were involved in the creation of the CCP: · Youth service providers working in health care, mental health, substance use clinics – e.g. adolescent school health centers, Ryan White service providers, local health departments, local community mental health. · Homeless youth and runaway service providers/all homeless service providers engaging with young people under age 25 · Entities that serve Black, Latino, Indigenous youth · Entities that serve LGBTQ+ youth · Education partners – e.g. Head Start and child care providers, McKinney-Vento liaisons, community colleges and universities, after-school providers · Workforce partners – e.g. Michigan Works! Job Corp · Child welfare partners – e.g. foster care and adoption agencies, Michigan Youth Opportunity Initiative (MYOI) partners, kinship family organizations · Law enforcement, juvenile justice service providers, judges · Local and state government – e.g. MDHHS, MDE, MDOC · Public Housing authorities, affordable housing providers, landlords · Disability advocacy or service organizations Which counties are in the Balance of State CoC? Click here for map |