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Consolidation of Community Input from Youth Homelessness Forum

Community initiative: Establish a resources clearing house, a safe place to connect with services available, including safe homes.
    • Investigate programs in other communities, including international models
    • Train mentors, including those who have gone through the experience of being homeless and have meeting spaces available at this site.
    • Provide family support and intervention and include at the site a process for connecting to that support.
    • Base a crisis type hotline for certain resources
    • Develop and provide transitional housing, food and clothing
    • Include the youth in the discussion and planning
    • Expand High Fidelity Wrap with homeless and shelter
    • Establish a common language process and database
    • Identify places for youth that are not eligible for existing programs
    • Provide legal advocacy/representation to tackle emancipation/guardianship questions
Community initiative: Develop a program of life skills training.
    • Investigate programs in other communities, including international models
    • Working with educational programs with the schools
    • Include the youth in the discussion and planning
Community initiative: Develop a community education and awareness program for Youth Homelessness issues for the purpose of:
    • Working for policy changes at local, state and federal level
    • Addressing problems of youth homelessness beyond Waterville
    • Establishing a common language pro

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