Hi everybody! I'll have to leave early and am off camera tending to my busy kids. Happy to be here for the time I can be though!

Casey Trupin, he/him, Raikes Foundation Director of Youth Homelessness

Good afternoon, everyone! Lauren Nichols with Pritzker Foster Care Initiative here

Kurt McLachlan, SCCOE Foster Youth Education Manager

Erin Bock, Sherwood Foundation— Director of Education and Housing

Hi everyone, Kathleen Traphagen, lead facilitator, Grantmakers for Thriving Youth. Thanks to Steph and YTFG for taking the lead on this webinar series!

Hello Everyone! Jaime Grasmick, Assistant Director of Student Crisis and Family Support- Granite Mountain Charter School

Hello everyone. Alex Yang with the Orange County Department of Education

Hi all! Kat Marulanda with Kinetic West.

Hello all! Wendy Dallin, Network Anaheim in Anaheim, CA

Chantelle Crespo, Special Populations Administrator at Granite Mountain Charter School.

Hi all, Ilia Lopez, Senior Manager Inclusion and Community Partnerships at Unite LA

Sunny Shen, Director of Prevention & Intervention

Irvine Unified School District

Hi All! Maddy Day, Owner and Senior Consultant with Maddy Day LLC & Associates: https://www.maddyday.com/

Alysia Bell, EVP, UNITE-LA - thanks for having me!

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Greetings!! Lissette Moore-Guerra, Student Services Coordinator. Santa Clara Unified School District.

https://voicesofyouthcount.org/

Here is the Center for the Transformation of Schools at UCLA: http://transformschools.ucla.edu

And here is Chapin Hall: http://www.chapinhall.org

Is there a place where we might locate this critical data? Thank you!

How/where can we learn more about the link between release from mental health/substance use treatment facilities and homelessness? Anything published at this point?

All of our national Voices of Youth Count data on youth homelessness is available through a series of user-friendly Impact Briefs: https://www.chapinhall.org/project/voices-of-youth-count/

Here you go, Audra! https://voicesofyouthcount.org/brief/national-estimates-of-youth-homelessness/

Thanks for the shout out. Here's a great multimedia piece on the behavioral health overlaps that Dr. Morton mentioned: https://crosscut.com/equity/2020/07/after-leaving-addiction-treatment-young-adults-often-face-homelessness

Big shout-out to Casey Trupin at Raikes and Alexia Everett at Stuart Foundation, both YTFG and GTY members who have invested deeply on this topic, and helped our field get lots of the data we now have.

perfect, thank you!

https://blackmaleinstitute.org/the-disenfranchisement-of-black-foster-youth/

Are there 'studies' done on the (positive/affirming) outcomes of providing 'basic needs' services to higher ed (post-high school) students? Say, providing showering + laundry services to housing insecure students...

great question.

@Luis I would encourage you to look into The California Higher Education Basic Needs Alliance (CHEBNA)

I am not sure if they have published findings on their efforts, though.

Thanks @Geneva. I know, at the California Community College-level, there's been a recent 'push' to provide 'basic needs' services to students. Some colleges are slow to do this roll-out (for lots of reasons).

The panel will continue for ~5-7 more minutes. Start thinking about questions you may have. Feel free to add them to the chat. For those who have already asked questions, we’ve got those!

We’ll have a short period of Q&A following the discussion.

@Luis the CHEBNA alliance spans UC, CSU and CCC. This report might give you some helpful info: https://basicneeds.ucsd.edu/_files/uc-bn-report-compressed.pdf

We are working in Anaheim to use some of our American Rescue Plan II dollars to create a larger system of supports using Anaheim family resource centers. We use the words, "triage" and "assess" to identify level of needs to then link supports based on needs of kids and families. I would like to understand more about this.

Partnering with Black Community Based Organizations to Address Student Homelessnesshttps://schoolhouseconnection.org/partnering-with-black-cbos-to-address-student-homelessness/

Wendy, this might be a good place to network and learn more about what others are doing - https://www.breakingbarriersca.org/2021-symposium

@Wendy - If you cannot attend, they have previous symposia available online with some excellent recorded sessions - https://youtu.be/DEJORQv0b0U

Questions from the chat (add others here!)From Luis Enrique Flores: Are there 'studies' done on the (positive/affirming) outcomes of providing 'basic needs' services to higher ed (post-high school) students? Say, providing showering + laundry services to housing insecure students... (some resources were shared in the chat)From Alexa Eggleston: How/where can we learn more about the link between release from mental health/substance use treatment facilities and homelessness? Anything published at this point? (some resources were shared in the chat)From Wendy Dallin: We are working in Anaheim to use some of our American Rescue Plan II dollars to create a larger system of supports using Anaheim family resource centers. We use the words, "triage" and "assess" to identify level of needs to then link supports based on needs of kids and families. I would like to understand more about this. (some resources were shared in the chat)

Really appreciate the specificity of these answers to what should the philanthropic sector do and the callout for focusing on systemic racial inequities & the need for cultural competence - so training, PD - for those serving young people. And the way the systems & funding & rules create barriers to access. Thank you! Really learned a lot from each of you.

For folks who want to dig deeper, here are the resources that were shared in the chat:https://crosscut.com/equity/2020/07/after-leaving-addiction-treatment-young-adults-often-face-homelessnesshttps://www.chapinhall.org/project/voices-of-youth-count/https://voicesofyouthcount.org/brief/national-estimates-of-youth-homelessness/https://blackmaleinstitute.org/the-disenfranchisement-of-black-foster-youth/The California Higher Education Basic Needs Alliance- CHEBNA alliance spans UC, CSU and CCC. https://basicneeds.ucsd.edu/_files/uc-bn-report-compressed.pdfhttps://www.breakingbarriersca.org/2021-symposiumhttps://schoolhouseconnection.org/partnering-with-black-cbos-to-address-student-homelessness/https://youtu.be/DEJORQv0b0U

YESSSSSSSS

YES YES YESSSSSSS

https://imprintnews.org/opinion/an-equity-minded-policy-agenda-for-people-who-experienced-foster-care/62231

Can we get the speakers emails?

I just want to send a heartfelt thank you to all of the folks on this panel. I am a former foster youth and experienced homelessness as both an adult with my own children and as a child myself. As someone at a county office of ed, as a former educator and in higher ed spaces, I have often felt at best, token-ized and mostly invisible. Thank you SO MUCH for honoring and uplifting lived experiences. I hope this will be a continued trend within all policy, funding and practice selection spaces. You guys are all doing such phenomenal work, all things for me to consider in my professional landscape. But thank you so much for just making me (and others like us) feel seen. <3

this is so great! thank you

this was great. thank you!

Thank you for having me! Good to see you all! Keep doing good work and getting into good trouble!

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I have been learning and adopting a new framework from Decolonize Design - they use the words Dignity, Belonging, Justice, and Joy instead of "DEI"...this resonates with me to make sure everything we do is through Dignity, Belonging, Justice and Joy

It was a pleasure to be with each of you today.

This was fantastic — thank you!