Getting Ready for YHSI Webinar
Isaac Sanders I April 23, 2024
Isaac Sanders I April 23, 2024
In November 2023, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development unveiled the Youth Homelessness System Improvement (YHSI) grants to support communities in enhancing or developing youth homelessness response systems. Grant announcements for YHSI are expected to be announced soon, as of April 2024.
The IDEA Collaborative and System Change Partners held a webinar to show how our consulting teams can support YHSI grant recipients.
YHSI grants will be announced soon, and recipients will need to work quickly to pull together resources and create a plan for implementation. We are excited to support communities in thinking through how to bring to life all the amazing projects you have been designing over the last few months, whether or not you are awarded YHSI funding.
We are a consultant team that brings deep expertise and knowledge on youth homelessness, including stakeholder and lived expert engagement, project management, process improvement, data analysis, including technical Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) expertise, qualitative and quantitative evaluation strategies, and anti-racism and equity principles.
*This webinar was hosted by System Change Partners (Liz Harding Chao and Vishesh Jain) and The IDEA Collaborative (Michelle Valdez, Jen Best, and Kira Zylstra). Our consulting teams do not represent HUD, and this webinar is not affiliated with HUD.
The IDEA Collaborative is founded on the principle that while system change may be challenging, it is indeed attainable. We are an experienced team of collaborators with nearly 5 decades of collective experience working alongside community partners to drive system change by combining extensive technical expertise and experience in adaptive change. Our team leverages our expertise as thought partners, facilitators, project managers, and trainers to increase local capacity and accelerate progress in addressing homelessness.
The IDEA Collaborative team has experience working with 14+ Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) communities, including large cities, suburban areas, and rural/Balance of State Continuums of Care. We have a unique view of the capacity it takes to impact system change and make progress.
System Change Partners is a BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ owned and led data and technology firm. Our mission is to bridge the gap between the passion for systems change and the practical, data-driven tools needed to achieve it. We are experts on youth and young adult homelessness, currently working with more than 20 communities across the United States and Australia.
We recently authored the most comprehensive study ever undertaken on unaccompanied youth and young adult homelessness in Washington state, which includes more than 90 actionable recommendations mostly from young people with lived experience: “Yes to Yes” Washington State: Unaccompanied Youth and Young Adult Homelessness Landscape Scan.
– Isaac Sanders