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Funding Frustrations

Submitted by nkruger on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 10:12
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A disheartening trend is affecting homeless and runaway youth service providers nationwide: increasing demand for services and decreasing funding levels. With more youth living on the streets, funding for services to this population has remained stagnate. Newspapers, online forums, scholarly articles, and organizations are relaying similar upsetting reports. “The number of homeless youth is increasing, but services and funding haven't kept pace for years.” - Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, March 2009. “Seven months into the school year, the organization has had 521 homeless youth apply to its programs, up from 456 at the same time one year earlier. But as the number increased, funding has dropped.” - El Independiente published by students in the University of Arizona School of Journalism, March 2010 “In a recent survey, 43% percent of responding cities reported an increase in the overall number of homeless persons accessing emergency shelter and transitional housing programs during the last year. Meanwhile, 52% of responding cities already report having to turn people away some or all of the time.” –National Coalition for Homeless Youth On Thursday, April 8, 2010, the Urban Institute hosted the Thursday’s Child public policy forum titled, Runaway and Homeless Youth: Prevalence, Programs, and Policy. An expert panel discussed current issues and services related to homeless and runaway youth. Attendees included service providers from throughout the country, including several representatives from National Network for Youth. The funding frustration was evident and widely discussed among the attendees. Decreased funding forces service providers to limit their programs and outreach, and, in worse case scenarios, to shut down completely. Homeless and runaway youth are being turned away because there aren’t enough beds in shelters and transitional living programs, putting youth back on the streets where they are exposed to a profusion of risks. The services that are being cut are the services critical to the well-being and future of today’s youth. Whether it is appropriating more money to the McKinney-Vento Act, higher appropriations for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, or through other effective strategies, a call for appropriate funding is necessary! Investing in today’s youth makes sense, so urge your senators and representatives to do so!
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Comments

We surely need to double up

Submitted by Heather on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 21:30.
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