The Step-Up Intervention Program: A Positive Youth Development Approach to Support Youth Experiencing Housing Instability and Homelessness

• By: Zoila A. Del-Villar, LMHC-Limited Permit, CASAC McSilver Institute of Poverty Policy and Research
• October 1st, 2017
• housing instability, life skills, mental health support, mentorship, positive youth development, school-based support, youth engagement, youth homelessness
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Housing instability and homelessness can be defined by frequent moves, couch-surfing, eviction, living in severely overcrowded housing, and living in housing that is not stable (Cutts, Meyers, Black, Casey, Chilton, Cook, & Rose-Jacobs, 2011). Housing instability and homelessness create...

More Than a Roof

• By: Trish Marsik Services for the UnderServed (S:US)
• October 1st, 2017
• community living, housing stability, independent living, mental health support, recovery-oriented services, social integration, supportive housing, value measurement
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Today’s focus on revenue streams, value-based payments and the needs of people who use multiple services creates one of two false paradigms. Either we try to fit the square peg of supported housing into the round hole of clinical interventions, or we reduce housing to merely a roof over one’s...