Child and Youth Homelessness Data

Our friends @SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions at @UMich recently released “Child and Youth Homelessness Data Profiles”: searchable data profiles that make available — for the first time — child and youth homelessness data at the county and Congressional levels. The profiles also include data at the national, state, and school district levels, and are meant to both educate us on the issues and drive us to act.

The Data Profiles are accompanied by “Seen and Served,” an analysis that examines patterns that are correlated with under-identifying and inadequately supporting children and youth experiencing homelessness. Together, the two pieces contain key data and insights on the number of students identified as experiencing homelessness and the number of districts that received dedicated federal funding to support children and youth experiencing homelessness—ultimately finding an alarming pattern of under-identification among school districts that do and do not receive dedicated funding to serve children and youth experiencing homelessness. But we can, and should, work to increase dedicated support for students experiencing homelessness across all school districts. “Seen and Served” outlines FOUR policy recommendations including increasing federal funding for the McKinney-Vento Act’s Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program.

Read more here: https://schoolhouseconnection.org/seen-and-served/

Family Promise hosts 7th Annual Valentine's Day Fundraiser

Family Promise of Lima-Allen County held their 7th Annual Valentine's Day Fundraising Event on Saturday night. There were live singers, items auctioned off, and a catered dinner prepared by students from Lima Senior High School.

Events like this help them house homeless families and get them on track to find employment and their own place to live.

https://www.hometownstations.com/news/family-promise-hosts-7th-annual-valentines-day-fundraising-event/article_dc495b2c-aa77-11ed-b028-6f4ef1938037.html

Family Promise to Host First-Ever Giving Day Event

SUMMIT, NJ, OCTOBER 25 – This October, Family Promise Affiliates across the country will participate in Family Promise’s first Giving Day, a one-day online event to raise awareness of Family Promise and the crisis of family homelessness in the U.S.

“We’re bringing our communities together to raise $1million for families experiencing homelessness,” says Chief Impact Officer Cara Bradshaw. “More than 80 Affiliates will be online on October 25 to support this mission.” The digital event will be accompanied by local in-person events at Affiliates and a Night of Giving Gala held in Summit, NJ.

Family Promise envisions a nation in which every family has a home, a livelihood, and the chance to build a better future. What began as a local initiative in Summit, NJ, has become a national movement that involves 200,000 volunteers and serves more than 90,000 family members each year. Family Promise will change the future for 1 million children by 2030. Let’s start on October 25! For more information about Family Promise Giving Day, please visit www.fpgives.org.

If you are a reporter with questions about Giving Day, please reach out to Katie Coughlin at kcoughlin@familypromise.org.

Family Promise aims to raise $1 million in 24 hours during Giving Day Event

Family Promise envisions a nation in which every family has a home, a livelihood, and the chance to build a better future. What began as a local initiative in Summit, NJ, has become a national movement that involves 200,000 volunteers and serves more than 90,000 family members each year. Family Promise will change the future for 1 million children by 2030. Let’s start on October 25! For more information about Family Promise Giving Day, please visit www.fpgives.org.

If you are a reporter with questions about Giving Day, please reach out to Katie Coughlin at kcoughlin@familypromise.org.

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