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DCYF, Office of Homeless Youth and State Board of Health brief committee on youth homelessness response and health impact review
Summary
DCYF described the Youth & Young Adult Housing Response Team, caseloads and referral criteria; the Office of Homeless Youth highlighted state progress and 'functional zero' work. The State Board of Health presented a health impact review finding that housing assistance for EFC youth would likely improve housing stability and health outcomes.
The Senate Human Services Committee heard three briefings that framed the policy debate around several bills on its agenda.
Vicki Ybarra, Assistant Secretary for Partnership Prevention and Services at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families, described the Youth & Young Adult Housing Response Team (YYHRT), an interagency coordination group created by the legislature in 2022 to triage complex cases and connect eligible young people to existing housing programs. Ybarra said YYHRT accepts referrals for nondependent young people ages 12 through 24 exiting public systems of care (child welfare, juvenile justice, behavioral health) or who are homeless or at risk of homelessness; she said DCYF…
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