This guide, published in October 2010 by the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), provides specific recommendations for how best to include unaccompanied homeless youth in the local Point in Time (PIT) counts that will be conducted in January 2011. It includes strategies on how to involve key stakeholders in the PIT count planning process, indicates locations where homeless youth may be found, and details ways to facilitate data collection, among other key action steps.
Download the guide.

This edition of The Exchange, the newsletter of the Family and Youth Services Bureau, focuses on serving youth experiencing homelessness, and includes a number of informative articles, including:
Youth Homelessness in Today’s Tough Economy;
In His Words: A Youth Speaks Out about His Homeless Experience;
Three Rules for Working With Unaccompanied Youth;
Coming in From the Shadows: Overrepresented Groups Among Homeless Youth;
Serving Overrepresented Groups of Homeless Youth;
Down for the Count: Getting the Numbers on Youth Homelessness;
How Many Homeless Youth Are There in My Community?; and
Resources for Identifying and Working With the Spectrum of Homeless Youth
View The Exchange online.

This 2008 report from the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY) provides policy and practice recommendations distilled from over 100 interviews with NAEHCY members across the country. Recommendations focus on seven key findings that, implemented as a continuum of support, will assist in increasing enrollment, attendance, and success in school for homeless unaccompanied youth, and in reengaging young people who have left school.
Download the report.