Fourth annual tripMarch 13 – 17, 2017

Three Days On the Hill

We exist to be the knowledgeable statewide voice that influences policies and practices that effect all youth who have or will experience out of home care.

OHIO Youth Advisory Board Mission Statement

Training location sponsored by the National Center for Housing and Child Welfare

Training Day

• In December of 2014, Ohio foster care youth proposed and designed a transitional housing model call HUD-FASH and requested that it be piloted in Ohio.

• Their proposal is modeled after an existing successful program, the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program, which combines Housing Choice Vouchers and rental assistance with case management.

HUD-FASH

• HUD-FASH is specifically designed to serve former foster care youth experiencing homelessness (including couch-surfing) through a Housing First approach that combines a housing choice voucher rental assistance with case management and clinical services where needed.

• The primary goal of this program is to prevent homelessness for this vulnerable population, and to lay the foundation for future housing stability.

• A key component of the program is case management service, designed to improve foster care alumni's ability to achieve and maintain stable housing in the future.

HUD-FASH

Chafee challenge:No funding increase

since 1999

Chafee challenge:Serving additional

youth

Meeting with HUD and HHS

Voices of Youth Countat Chapin Hall

Congresswoman Joyce Beatty,

Champion on the Hill

Congressman Mike Turner,

Champion on the Hill

Congressman Pat Tiberi

National Council of Jewish Women

Congressman Brad Wenstrup

Congressman Steve Chabot

Senator Sherrod Brown’s Office

Celebratory Dinner, sponsored by Casey

Foundation

Memories from the trip…