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San Francisco Builds Housing for City’s Hard-to-Find Homeless Youth and Young Adults

San Francisco Builds Housing for City’s Hard-to-Find Homeless Youth and Young Adults Feature Article, November 2013 Newsletter Sleeping on San Francisco streets, twenty-year old Adamar discovered a few things, like a 4am Sprinkler system that woke him one morning in the park outside City Hall. Adamar also discovered Larkin Street Youth Services HIRE UP employment program for homeless young people, and hasn’t slept on the streets since. Adamar and San Francisco’s nearly 5,700 young people who are homeless or marginally housed are not only hard to house, but also hard to find and identify in the first place—often living off […]

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San Francisco Peer Resources director Pui Ling Tam convenes San Francisco Youth Leadership Allies group

Before Pui Ling Tam became director of San Francisco Peer Resources, she grew up just another young person in a summer program. There Pui taught other youth her age and younger. After college, she continued to teach young people and ran a youth empowerment program in Chinatown that partnered with other youth programs, including Peer Resources. “That’s when I saw the cross-over work being done,” says Pui, “and the need to coordinate.” Learning from these experiences, Pui and the San Francisco Youth Empowerment Fund are convening a group called San Francisco Leadership Allies, “not to add more work,” says Pui, […]

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Mentoring for Success program builds on SFUSD’s Early Warning Indicators (EWI) system to identify and encourage students at-risk of dropping out

Almost half the class of 2014 was not on-track to graduate from SFUSD in fall of 2012, district data showed. To bring these students back on-track, SFUSD implemented an Early Warning Indicator (EWI) System to identify students who have the highest risk of dropping out of high school. Early Warning Indicators Identify Students In-Need Before They Dropout Many school districts across the U.S. have adopted Early Warning Systems, and a few years ago, SFUSD partnered with Bridge to Success and StanfordUniversity in order to find a way to identify the San Francisco dropout population. They discovered there were two high-risk […]

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San Francisco Youth Commissioners still pushing BOS and City Departments to implement 12N sensitivity training and track outcomes of LGBTQQ youth

In a photo published in San Francisco Bay Guardian article earlier this year, San Francisco Youth Commissioner Mia Tu Much, 22, held a sign stating “I need 12N because youth shouldn’t have to educate adults.” The “12N” refers to Chapter 12N of the San Francisco Administrative Code that requires city departments to provide sensitivity training to employees working with LGBTQQ young people like Commissioner Tu Much. Now thirteen years since12N became law, only one city department, according to the San Francisco Youth Commission, has been in full compliance. “The Department of Public Health (DPH) is the only one specifically looking […]

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Local young adult Nicole Plata’s first-hand knowledge of trauma and stigma informs her mental health advocacy for transitional age youth

Now a health professional on track to graduate school, advocate Nicole Plata has a troubled past of health challenges. Like many young people affected by trauma that Nicole now serves and advocates for at Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis (PREP) clinic, one of Nicole’s barriers to health was social stigma surrounding mental health issues. Before San Francisco, Nicole grew up in East San Jose, exposed to community violence and abuse. Nicole was arrested at thirteen years-old and got into a lot of unhealthy relationships “to find belonging that I wanted,” Nicole told me. “Nothing felt stable.” Nicole ignored the […]

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California Public Utilities Commission to provide free phone and cell service for California’s former foster youth 18-21 years-old

The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved a policy that will provide free cell phones and up to 250 minutes of service monthly to residents, age 18 and above, who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI), food stamps, Medicaid and other public assistance OR who earn less than $15,000 per year. Both current and former foster youth are eligible for Medicaid to age 21. As such, they are eligible to participate in this program. Effective January 1, 2014, Medicaid eligibility for youth in foster care at age 18 will extend to age 26 as part of implementation of the federal […]

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