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Tackling & Preventing Youth Homelessness: What Works?

Tackling & Preventing Youth Homelessness: What Works?. Jo Gunner National Homelessness Coordinator YMCA England. “I was away from all the arguing but then I got stuck in a B & B”. The YMCA In England. 7000 beds each night 250 communities 6 Action Learning Centres.

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Tackling & Preventing Youth Homelessness: What Works?

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  1. Tackling & Preventing Youth Homelessness: What Works? Jo Gunner National Homelessness Coordinator YMCA England

  2. “I was away from all the arguing but then I got stuck in a B & B”

  3. The YMCA In England • 7000 beds each night • 250 communities • 6 Action Learning Centres

  4. Patterns Of Homelessness 16/17 year olds in B&B Source: Communities & Local Government June 2007

  5. Elements of a Strategy

  6. Early Interventions • Pre-16 • Pre-Crisis • Assessment & Advice • Family Support & Mediation “You should warn them about the real effects of leaving home”

  7. Emergency Accommodation “The biggest problem was having to leave my mum” • Respite • Crash-pads • Supported Lodgings • Extended family • Ongoing Mediation & Assessment

  8. For More Ideas • YMCA Action Learning Centres • Exemplar Supported Lodgings Schemes • Regional Centres of Excellence • NYHS Knowledge base www.communities.gov.uk/youthhomelessness

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