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Tackling & Preventing Youth Homelessness: What Works?

Jo Gunner National Homelessness CoordinatorYMCA England

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

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•7000 beds each night

• 250 communities

• 6 Action Learning Centres

The YMCA In England

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15

18

21

32

36

47

72

76

282

0 50 100 150 200 250 300

North East

North West

Yorkshire & Humberside

East Midlands

West Midlands

East

South East

South West

London

Source: Communities & Local Government June 2007

Patterns Of Homelessness

16/17 year olds in B&B

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Accommodation& Support

Wider Needs

Early Intervention &

Prevention

Young Person

Elements of a Strategy

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Early Interventions

•Pre-16

•Pre-Crisis

•Assessment & Advice

•Family Support & Mediation

“You should warn them about the real effects of leaving home”

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Emergency Accommodation

•Respite

•Crash-pads

•Supported Lodgings

•Extended family

•Ongoing Mediation & Assessment

“The biggest problem was having to leave my mum”

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For More Ideas

• YMCA Action Learning Centres

• Exemplar Supported Lodgings Schemes

• Regional Centres of Excellence

• NYHS Knowledge base

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