Youth Homelessness and Education: A Race Matters Conference

1. Youth, Homelessness and Education: Race Matters Race and Pedagogy Conference September 29, 2018 University of Puget Sound

2. Over 4000 attendees from campus, the local community, and across the nation. https://www.facebook.com/raceandpedagogy/videos/321109348651658/

3. The Race & Pedagogy Institute (RPI) is a collaboration of University of Puget Sound and the South Sound community that integrates intellectual assets of the campus into a mutual and reciprocal partnership with local community experience and expertise, to educate students and teachers at all levels to think critically about race, to cultivate terms and practices for societal transformation, and to act to eliminate racism. M I S S I O N

4. 4 Plenary Keynote Speakers • 12 Spotlight Sessions –RPI Priorities • Race, Education, & Criminal Justice • Pre-K Teacher Preparation • Arts as Public Pedagogy • Language, Land, Health • Immigration • Science & Race • Homelessness • Faith & Spirituality • Multi-racial Identities • 120 Concurrent Sessions • 2 Poster Sessions • 2 Journal Issues • 2 Evening Arts Events • 8 Special Exhibits • Youth Summit Friday Keynote BRIAN CLADOOSBY Keynote JEFF CHANG Resneck Pierce Lecture VALERIE B. JARRETT Keynote ALICIA GARZA and PATRISSE CULLORS

5. Homelessness

6. Different Forms of Racism • Systemic Racism - a system of advantage based on race • Institutionalized Racism - • Housing discrimination and redlining • Hiring procedures/educational requirements • Racial profiling in policing • Modern/Implicit Racism – unintentional prejudice that surfaces in automatic and subtle (or not so subtle) ways • Blatant Personal Racism

7. The State of Evictions: Results from the University of Washington Evictions ProjectThomas, Toomet, Kennedy, and RamillerUniversity of Washington t77@uw.eduhttps://evictions.study/

8. SPARC Phase One Study Findings, March 2018 • http://center4si.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SPARC-Phase-1-Findings-March-20181.pdf • 8 SPARC Communities: Pierce County, Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland, Columbus, Dallas, Syracuse and Minnesota • 171 Oral Histories and 21 Focus Groups • 180,000+ Client Records from HMIS

9. SPARC Phase One Study Findings, March 2018 • http://center4si.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SPARC-Phase-1-Findings-March-20181.pdf • “Although Black people comprise 13% of the general population in the United States and 26% of those living in poverty, they account for more than 40% of the homeless population, suggesting that poverty rates alone do not explain over-representation” • Rates of Native American homelessness are disproportionately high. In SPARC communities, homelessness among American Indian/Alaskan Native was 3 to 8 times higher than their proportion of the general population.

10. SPARC Phase One Study Findings, March 2018 • http://center4si.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SPARC-Phase-1-Findings-March-20181.pdf Factors influencing homelessness for people of color include: • Lack of safe and affordable housing • Lack of economic capital and opportunity - network impoverishment • Felony history as a barrier • High rates of traumatic stress, mental illness, and substance abuse. • Multi-generational family factors (foster care, poverty, violence) (See SPARC recommendations and also 2019 NAEH conference symposium at https://www.facebook.com/naehomelessness/videos/298820004113576/UzpfSTYxODM5NTI2MToxMDE2MTMxNDI3MzUyNTI2Mg/)

11. Service Avoidance Poor Physical Health PsychologicalDistress Stigma Concerns (Weisz & Quinn, 2017)

12. Service Avoidance Homelessness Poor Physical Health PsychologicalDistress Stigma Concerns (Weisz & Quinn, 2017)

13. Service Avoidance Homelessness Poor Physical Health Racism PsychologicalDistress Stigma Concerns (Weisz & Quinn, 2017)

14. Youth, Homelessness and Education: Race Matters Race and Pedagogy Conference September 29, 2018 University of Puget Sound

15. Spotlight Session Participants Samantha Iverson, McKinney-Vento Liaison, Tacoma Public Schools 253.571-6781 |Siverso@Tacoma.k12.wa.us Andreta Armstrong, Human Rights Manager, City of Tacoma 253.591.5849| Andreta.Armstrong@CityofTacoma.org Klarissa Monteros, Senior Program Manager, Building Changes 206.805.6135| Klarissa.Monteros@BuildingChanges.org Raphael Hartman, Community Activist, RaphaelHartman@gmail.com LaMont Green, Lead Youth & Young Adult Homelessness Planner, All Home King County 253.310.6222 | LamontGR@USC.edu Katara Jordan, Senior Manager, Policy & Advocacy, Building Changes 206.805.6112 | Katara.Jordan@buildingchanges.org Colleen Philbrook - Assistant Principal TAF@Saghalie Federal Way School District | cphilbro@fwps.org Lyle Quasim, Chair, The Black Collective, Community Leader and Activist Pamela Duncan, Co-Chair, Principal, Tierra Solida Consulting, 253-303-1544 | Pamela@TierraSolidaConsulting.com Carolyn Weisz, Co-Chair, Professor of Psychology, University of Puget Sound cweisz@PugetSound.edu https://www.facebook.com/raceandpedagogy/videos/32436027151805/

16. Student Homelessness: Race Matters Race & Pedagogy Conference | September 2018

17. Scope of Student Homelessness in WA 40,934

18. Scope of Student Homelessness in WA

19. What is Student Homelessness? Student Homelessness Youth Homelessness Family Homelessness Children, Youth, & Young AdultsPre K-12 (Ages 3-21) At least one adult with a child or youth under age 18 Youth and Young Adults (Ages 13-24)

20. Systemic Challenges: Definitional Alignment 20 of 18

21. Systemic Challenges: Resources 21 of 18

22. TPS MV Housing and Community Resources Goal of Position: Provide additional support and housing and/or resource navigation to identified families and students experiencing housing instability and/or homelessness. Referral Process • MV Liaisons will send intake and referral form for approved MV households • Outreach to head of household – gather information about their unique situation • Connect student/family directly to resources and/or coordinate on their behalf as needed Targeted Outcomes: • Increase community outreach and promote cross systems work to ease access to services for students and families. • Maintain and deepen collaboration with counselors, family liaisons and social workers.

23. 2018-2019 Ground Level Data MVHCR Referrals • 138 total head of households/UA Youth Percentage of People of Color Served • HUD Category 1: 92% • Doubled-Up: 70% • Unaccompanied Youth: 57%

24. Challenges and Reflection • OSPI Data Availability • Big systems are not good at this • Commitment to using a racial equity lens • Scale this work to fit your role • Narratives sharpen and reinforce this effort • Moving talk into action

25. Targeted Universalism • “A targeted universal strategy is one that is inclusive of the needs of both the dominant and the marginal groups, but pays particular attention to the situation of the marginal group. For example, if the goal were to open up housing opportunity for low-income whites and non-whites, one would look at the different constraints for each group. • Targeted universalism rejects a blanket universal which is likely to be indifferent to the reality that different groups are situated differently relative to the institutions and resources of society. It also rejects the claim of formal equality that would treat all people the same as a way of denying difference. Any proposal would be evaluated by the outcome, not just the intent. While the effort would be universal for the poor, it would be especially sensitive to the most marginal groups.” • –john powell, excerpted from Post-Racialism or Targeted Universalism