Summary
PolicyWise for Children & Families, in partnership with Dr. Carla Hilario and the Government of British Columbia, worked to understand how to prevent youth homelessness in BC. The BC Youth Homelessness Prevention Project Report shares key findings and how they inform policy. The Report is part of PolicyWise’s youth homelessness prevention collaboration work.
Policy & Practice Implications
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Policy makers can inform policy on youth homelessness prevention. The report contains real world examples of prevention as a starting point for what policy might look like in practice.
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Service providers can use the findings to inform youth homelessness prevention approaches. They can also use the findings to advocate to fund these approaches.
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Funders can use project findings to guide promising work around youth homelessness prevention.
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Data providers and researchers can use the work to argue for access to data for homelessness research. The project shows an example of how data can inform homelessness policy.
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