Safety

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness meeting on June 12, 2012, at 1:30 Eastern will be streamed live. At the meeting, Administration on Children, Youth and Families Commissioner Bryan Samuels will present the proposed framework to end youth homelessness to the council and all those viewing the webcast.
Bryan Samuels, commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, and Andrew Barnett, executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League, talk to NCFY about the need to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in teen pregnancy prevention efforts.
Recent studies have shown that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth may be twice as likely as their straight peers to experience an unwanted pregnancy. Bryan Samuels, commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, and Andrew Barnett, executive director of the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League, talk to NCFY about this growing field of study and concern. Time: 4:...
Until recently, police in St. Paul, MN, had only one question when they released a runaway youth from custody: Did the young person get home?
NCFY's latest podcast features Sandy Skelaney, who directs Project GOLD, a Miami program that reaches out to young female victims of sex trafficking. Skelaney spoke with NCFY about the specific dangers that victims of sex trafficking face, and the steps she and her colleagues take to assist them. Listen to the podcast and read the transcript.
Sandy Skelaney is a Miami street outreach worker who specializes in helping victims of sex trafficking. She talks to NCFY about how to approach sexually exploited youth and how to begin to help them. Time: 5:22 | Size: 4.9 MB | Transcript
This Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration program provides community-based trauma treatment and services to children and adolescents who have experienced or witnessed traumatic events, and to their families. The program aims to increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services for children and adolescents throughout the nation.  See full announcement....
Chris Molinelli calls it “a happy accident.” In September, his Middletown, NY, youth shelter, A Friend’s House, received a 3 a.m. call from a young man who needed emergency housing. “He met all our criteria, but we couldn’t get him transportation,” Molinelli says.
The Family and Youth Service's Bureau's Transitional Living Program and Maternity Group Homes fund community-based programs that address the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth and their families. Both programs aim to increase young people's safety, well-being and self-sufficiency, and to help them build permanent connections with caring adults.
This funding announcement from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will support research that aims to improve our understanding about the factors that influence the prevention of underage drinking, the enforcement of underage drinking laws, and individuals’ and communities’ attitudes and behaviors about underage drinking.
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