Preparing Youth with Behavioral Health Needs to Enter the Workforce: A Pathway to Housing

• By: Jacqueline Brown Lisa Furst, LMSW, MPH Vibrant Emotional Health
• January 22nd, 2024
• adolescent skills centers, educational challenges, homelessness prevention, housing support, life skills education, mental health, trauma recovery, vocational training, Winter 2024 Issue, youth advocacy, youth empowerment
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Imagine sitting in a classroom, expected to absorb the curriculum, when you are extremely worried about whether your family will be evicted from their home. What can you, a young person trying to graduate from high school, do to change your circumstances? What if you have also survived traumatic...

Youth in Transition

• By: M.T. S.D. T.W. Q.B. T.D. Services for the UnderServed (S:US)
• January 1st, 2017
• aging out of care, foster care, housing instability, independent living, peer support, support systems, trauma, youth advocacy
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This article is the third in a quarterly series giving voice to the perspectives of individuals with lived experiences as they share their opinions on a particular topic. The young authors of this column came together as a focus group of peers to discuss their experiences and collaborate on this...