According to National Alliance To End Homelessness (2009), Family conflict and abuse are consistently identified by unaccompanied homeless youth as the primary reasons for their homelessness. A system aimed at ending youth homelessness must include prevention and early intervention services that address underlying abuse and family dysfunction and achieve family reunification. Within this framework, prevention services are those that improve family functioning and prevent the abuse and conflict that lead to runaway and throwaway scenarios. Early intervention services are programs designed to respond to the early stages of a youth’s homelessness with re-housing through family reunification, guardianship, or placement in youth housing programs.
Recognizing the need for crisis intervention and prevention activities, the National Alliance to End Homelessness encourages community planners and youth services agencies to develop and implement a service spectrum with the following components:
*Street and community-based outreach to link youth with appropriate services;
*Prevention and early intervention services geared toward family preservation;
*Crisis emergency shelters with case managers seeking family reunification, and;
*Youth housing with positive youth development services.
*Prevention and early intervention services geared toward family preservation;
*Crisis emergency shelters with case managers seeking family reunification, and;
*Youth housing with positive youth development services.
All of this, are represented in the next diagram:
Author: National Alliance To End Homelessness (2009)
Appendix:
Author: Gulliver, T. (2014)
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