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March 6, 2024

Youth and Allies Against Homelessness (YAAH) recently released youth-partnered and evidence-based Guidelines to Prevent, Address, and End Youth Homelessness. The guidelines are structured to serve as a comprehensive, adaptable roadmap of interventions for youth advocates and providers, local jurisdictions in California, and public servants nationally.

March 1, 2024

Youth Equity Discovery Initiative (YEDI) Scholar Nicole Sears recently represented the YEDI experience at the Discovery Initiative Panel for the UC Berkeley Board of Trustees Meeting on March 1st, 2024!

February 29, 2024

UC Berkeley's CalHOPE Student Support Partnership with the Sacramento County Office of Education was recently selected to receive the 2023-2024 Chancellor's Campus-Community Partnership Award. This award recognizes campus-community partnerships and programs that improve the quality of life in Berkeley. Read more about this award here.

January 9, 2024

UC Berkeley's Center for Teaching & Learning highlighted YEDI's "Discovery Project: Research as a Tool for Change" lesson in its Teaching Innovation Showcase. This lesson was developed by the YEDI Program and is taught annually to YEDI Scholars. See the full Teaching Innovation Showcase here.

December 22, 2023

i4Y is excited to announce a partnership with Covenant House to explore opportunities for more effective youth homelessness prevention practices and policies. Through youth-partnered and youth-centered community-engaged research, this project seeks to offer insights into promising practices, opportunities for improved public policy, and necessary changes within systems that impact all young people. By hearing directly from youth about supports and services that could have helped them to avoid (or reduce) homelessness exp