Youth & Liaison Support

No one knows the challenges and barriers of homelessness better than youth who have experienced homelessness, service providers, and McKinney-Vento liaisons who work with them. We regularly interface with these groups by coordinating a McKinney-Vento Liaison Council, which brings together liaisons from across Texas to learn about what they are seeing in schools, and engaging with youth who are experiencing homelessness themselves by participating in group meetings like Youth Voices Empowered out of Houston. We also provide both of these groups with important resources and information, including trainings. From their feedback, we also have created materials to help them access resources, and understand legal and policy changes. This includes a poster aimed at preventing trafficking, as well as a poster to explain how to get a free driver’s license or ID document.