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Youth Today News

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Youth Today is a nonprofit news source for people who care about and work with children and youth. We publish in-depth reporting on issues including education, child welfare, juvenile justice, youth with disabilities, out-of-school time, youth development and more.Visit us at YouthToday.org.

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episode S2 E3 ‘Home was never a place’: One woman’s life in WA foster care⁠ artwork

S2 E3 ‘Home was never a place’: One woman’s life in WA foster care⁠

Janell Braxton spent much of the early 2000s in foster care. She moved between more than eight homes before the age of 21. After she exited foster care, Janell felt she wasn’t set up to take care of herself – she wasn’t taught to build a budget, pay her rent or apply for an apartment – and after a particularly traumatic experience she found herself staying on couches with friends and family. In the third of a three-part series on how public funds are being used to address youth homelessness in Washington state, Janell and her mother Debra tell their stories. Janell told journalists Sam Leeds and Elizabeth Whitman, “If my story can help anyone, just even one person, then that’s all that matters to me.” Learn more: ‘Home was never a place’: One woman’s life in WA foster care [https://youthtoday.org/2023/11/washington-foster-care-home-was-never-a-place] This episode was created by Youth Today and Crosscut. The story editor was Jacob Jones.

21 Nov 2023 - 32 min
episode S2 E2: Researchers team up with court staff to help Washington homeless youth artwork

S2 E2: Researchers team up with court staff to help Washington homeless youth

By 17, Pip was cycling in and out of Kitsap County’s juvenile court. He avoided going home to a “volatile” living situation. He struggled at work. Then a court-appointed therapist referred him to a program called H-SYNC, Housing Stability for Youth in Courts. H-SYNC has been life-changing, Pip said. Nearly a quarter of young people who exit the Washington state justice system are homeless a year later. Young people leaving foster care or inpatient behavioral health become homeless at high rates as well. Five years ago, Washington enacted a law aimed at preventing this phenomenon. In the second of a three-part series, journalists Sam Leeds and Elizabeth Whitman explain how H-SYNC was designed to identify and help youth at risk of homelessness — and how it could serve as a model for other states. Learn more: Researchers team up with court staff to help Washington homeless youth [https://youthtoday.org/2023/11/researchers-team-up-with-court-staff-to-help-washington-homeless-youth] This episode was created by Youth Today and Crosscut. The story editor was Jacob Jones.

14 Nov 2023 - 27 min
episode S2 E1: Washington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags artwork

S2 E1: Washington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags

When Daniel Lugo was preparing to transition out of foster care around his 21st birthday, he looked for help figuring out how to cover his rent and other expenses once state payments stopped. Eventually, he reached a dead end. Later, as a legislative aide in Washington's House of Representatives, that experience inspired him to propose a "no-wrong-door access point" for young people in similar situations, like exiting foster care, the juvenile justice system, or in-patient behavior health treatment. In the first of a three-part series, journalists Sam Leeds and Elizabeth Whitman trace Lugo's idea through the legislative process and into reality. Learn more: Washington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags [https://youthtoday.org/2023/10/washingtons-new-youth-homelessness-lifeline-service-lags/] This episode was created by Youth Today and Crosscut. The story editor was Jacob Jones.

25 Oct 2023 - 31 min
episode S1 E2: More housing resources go to young Washingtonians leaving state custody. Is it enough? artwork

S1 E2: More housing resources go to young Washingtonians leaving state custody. Is it enough?

Young people eventually released from Washington state’s foster care, juvenile or mental and behavioral health systems often do so without having reliable, steady housing already in place. For instance, the latest estimate is that 17% of young people leaving foster care were homeless at some point within a year of that exit.  With a new law in 2018 and the passage of complementary legislation earlier this year, state lawmakers have ramped up a multibillion-dollar effort to keep those teens and young adults from falling into homelessness.  For this episode of the Youth Today podcast, producer Rachel Stevens talked to the lead sponsor of that legislation about what she hopes it will achieve. She also spoke with two young women who were homeless after being released from state care to get their take on whether the new initiatives are sufficient. This podcast is part of an ongoing series on homelessness in Washington state, done in collaboration with Crosscut. It is made possible in part by support from the Raikes Foundation. Youth Today and Crosscut maintain editorial control.

19 Aug 2022 - 29 min
episode S1 E1: How homeless youth services adapted to COVID artwork

S1 E1: How homeless youth services adapted to COVID

When schools closed and the states locked down against COVID-19 in March 2020, employees at organizations serving homeless youth felt a wave of panic. How would they aid students trying to attend remote school from inside a car? Or reach kids quarantining in crowded homes where money for food and rent already was stretched thin? As COVID-19 upended their usual protocols, some nonprofits saw the tally of homeless youth they served plummet. But for other organizations across the country, the pandemic spurred innovations in how they find and serve a population whose needs were amplified and, in some ways, made more acute because of COVID-19. A number of service providers adopted online and telephone-based options for young people to apply for housing, attend support groups and connect with case managers, mental health counselors and doctors. Other groups went in the opposite direction, delivering food and other supplies directly to youth and their families wherever they were sheltered, including in cars and motel rooms. Several organizations around the country also began experimenting with giving cash directly to young people, allowing them to determine how best to meet their own needs. For this episode of the Youth Today News podcast, we focus on two providers in one city that responded to the pandemic in very different ways, saw the benefits of doing something new and were forever changed by it. This podcast is part of an ongoing series on homelessness in Washington state, done in collaboration with Crosscut [https://crosscut.com/]. It is made possible in part by support from the Raikes Foundation. Youth Today and Crosscut maintain editorial control. You can read a text version of this story on Youth Today. [https://youthtoday.org/2022/02/upended-by-covid-19-some-nonprofits-went-online-on-the-road-and-otherwise-innovated-to-aid-homeless-youth/]

2 Feb 2022 - 25 min
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