Runaway and Homeless Youth

OMB seeks input, information, and recommendations from a broad array of stakeholders in the public, private, advocacy, not-for-profit, and philanthropic sectors on available methods, approaches, and tools that could assist in identifying effective methods for assessing whether agency policies and actions equitably serve all eligible individuals and communities, particularly those that are currently and historically underserved.

This webpage provides questions for communities to consider on how to support children and youth experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Two new videos highlight the PAF, a program that supports expectant and parenting teens, women, fathers, and families.

This podcast features rural youth leaders who were once homeless or in foster care offering advice on how to engage vulnerable rural youth.

These briefs discuss characteristics and experiences of young people who are homeless for prolonged periods of time, including the intersection with serious mental illness, and provide information on promising interventions for this population.

This report summarizes a study to develop and pretest a Human Trafficking Screening Tool with 600 youth involved in the runaway and homeless youth or child welfare systems.