Despite a strong network of youth-serving organizations and public agencies, San Francisco lacks a unified, proactive system to identify and prevent youth homelessness. Larkin Street Youth Services, All Home, young people with lived experience, and partners across the city created this set of Community Priorities to Prevent Youth Homelessness, with the goal of a coordinated, city-wide system by 2030.
These priorities represent bold thinking, youth voice, and a new approach to prevention that centers young people. It is built around four key pillars:
- Proactive identification of youth at risk of homelessness
- Evidence-based prioritization for assistance based on risk factors unique to youth
- Flexible and direct financial assistance, and
- Integration across youth-serving systems and services.
