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We can end youth homelessness in LA.

A campaign to prioritize young people’s needs and voices

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Our Platform

We can end youth homelessness by:

Equitable Access: Youth with Young People to the Front shirt on smiling

Ensure equitable access to services for young people at high risk of experiencing homelessness and competency serving them

Invest in Set Asides: apartment building

Invest in TAY set asides as a standard practice with new and existing funding streams

Elevate lived experience: group of four friends hanging out

Ensure that youth with lived experience have decision making power in ending youth homelessness

 
Youth-specific services: group of teenagers putting their hands in the center

Invest in youth-specific services to prevent long term homelessness

Decriminalize: Young People to the Front Youth Expert Board in front of city hall

Decriminalize youth homelessness

 
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About Young People to the Front

Young People to the Front is a campaign that brings together experts on youth homelessness and prioritizes the voices of young people with lived experience. Our campaign raises up a set of policy demands for city, county, state and federal legislation.

Learn more about Young People to the Front

Join our youth expert board

Young People to the Front is all about elevating the voices of young people with lived experience of homelessness. We invite you to become a part of our Youth Expert Board.