Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $75 million to end youth homelessness in 23 local communities across the country. Honolulu was awarded $3.8 million to collaboratively develop and implement a plan to respond to the needs of our homeless youth.
The goal of the YHDP is to support communities in the development and implementation of a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness, and then share that experience with communities around the country toward the same end. The population to be served by this demonstration program is youth experiencing homelessness, including unaccompanied and pregnant or parenting youth, where no member of the household is older than 24.
The Oahu Coordinated Community Plan to End Youth Homelessness
Members of Partners In Care and the O’ahu Youth Action Board have led the year long effort, in collaboration with over 30 of our partners, to gather community knowledge and cooperatively develop a detailed plan that will guide the evolution of our youth homelessness response system.
In April of 2020 Partners In Care submitted the final draft of the O’ahu Coordinated Community Plan to End Youth Homelessness to HUD. HUD approved the plan on May 4th, 2020.