Symposium Spotlight Videos
Jhumpa Bhattacharya on Capital and Wealth Extraction
“...it’s going to take so many of us to really build power and build momentum.”

Listen to 2019 Symposium Speaker Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Vice President at the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, discuss the structural barriers of race, capital, and wealth extraction that have informed the youth homelessness crisis we see today.
Hear from leaders in the space like Jhumpa about structural barriers and what we can do to dismantle them and work to end youth homelessness at our 3rd Annual National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness on June 17-19 in NYC.
Our 2019 Symposium is Now HUD Approved
Therefore, project administrative funds awarded under the CoC and Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG)
Programs may be used to attend the Conference
Short-term Host Homes
Lighthouse Youth & Family Services launched a host home program check out their insights and tips here.
Ryan Berg and Rocki Simões, Avenues for Homeless Youth
Check out these awesome host home program resources from the amazing Safe Place for Youth.
Ma'liyah Davis, Center for Youth
Rosie Bender, Avenues for Homeless Youth
Ask a Rockstar: Martin Houghton-Brown, Chief Executive, Depaul UK, 30 Years of Host Home Experience.
This comprehensive toolkit includes forms, documents, and other policy and procedure resources used by Avenues for Homeless Youth.
Ask a Rockstar: Hear from Martin Houghton-Brown, Chief Executive, Depaul UK, 30 Years of Host Home Experience.
Kim Justice, Executive Director
Washington State Department of Commerce
Kim Ledene and Jocelyn Adamo, Boys and Girls Club of Calgary
Family and Kinship Strengthening
Audience Q & A on family & kinship strengthening from the 2018 National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness
Jean Malpas
Director of the Gender and Family Project, The Ackerman Institute for the Family
Grace from the Ackerman Institute for the Family
Kisha Coston, Parent Advocate at CAMBA Project ALY in Brooklyn
Justin Sage-Passant and Natalie Shubrook
Family Intervention Counselors, Family Reconnect Program, Evas
Urban Institute and Child Trends
Dr. David Howard, Covenant House International
Rapid Re-Housing
Creating Flow Through & “Right Sizing” Your System (Videos)
Why Systems Need to Do More Rapid Re-housing | Resources & Symposium Videos
Lessons learned from RRH implementation.
Brett Esders, Senior Program Specialist at U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Videos explaining the flexibility of rapid rehousing.
Blair Franklin, Dylan McDonough & Speedy
Audience Q & A on rapid re-housing from the 2018 National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness
Point Source Youth Consultants
Hear from Marc Dones Associate Director, Equity Initiatives at Center for Social Innovation about Racism and Youth Homelessness.
Jeannette Ruffins, Bailey House
Serving LGBTQ+ Youth
Jean Malpas
Director of the Gender and Family Project, The Ackerman Institute for the Family
Youth came together to determine the most important questions to answer as part of a Youth Voices Panel at the National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness.
Larry Cohen, Colin McSwiggen, Ronald Johnson, et al.
Systems Strengthening
Access to Healthcare and HIV
Provided with the Support of VIIV
Take Power into Your Own Hands: Lessons Learned from Social Movements - Starting with the AIDS Movement with Sophie Cadle.
Cynthia Langtiw
Eric Sawyer
Gregg Gonsalves
2018 National Symposium
Youth Panel on Housing First
Structural Barriers: Racism, Trans Bias, Stigma, Capital
Structural Barriers: Rascism, Trans Bias, Stigma, Capital (Video) with Marc Dones and Jhumpa Bhattacharya. Host Homes in Action (Video) with Renee Stainrod, Karen Heyward-West. and Rachel Pedowitz.
Symposium Day 1, Structural Barriers: Imagration and Trans Intersections
Structural Barriers Racism, Trans Bias, Stigma, Capital (Video) featuring Dr. Jama Shelton, Silberman School of Social Work
Host Homes in Action
Rapid Re-Housing in Action
Why Systems Need to Do More Rapid Re-housing | Resources & Symposium Videos
Symposium 2018 Day 1: Rapid Re-Housing in Action
Blair Franklin, Dylan McDonough & Speedy
Housing as Healthcare
Discussion with Ben Henwood PHD on housing effects on healthcare. Housing first to save further healthcare costs.
Breakout Sessions 1 - Launching Host Homes in Your Community
Renee Stainrod & Karen Heyward-West
Rachel Pedowitz & Michal David
Laura Foster
Elisa Traficante
Daniel Stultz
Break Out Sessions 1- Rapid Re-housing Implementation Lessons:
Case Management, Shared Housing & Progressive Engagement
Eva Thibaudeau-Graczyk
Kelly O’Sullivan
Danielle Winslow
Brett Esders
Jeffery King
Breakout Sessions 1 - Housing as Healthcare
Breakout Sessions 1 - Innovations in Funding
John Kimble + Nicole Leach
Erik Estrada
Christopher Maggiano
Breakout Sessions 1 - Point Source Youth:
Findings from Our Work
Jenna Mellor & Orlando Roybal
Breakout Sessions 1 - Effective Youth Partnership
Nadja Bentley & Ziggy Keyes
Matthew Aronson
Johnathan Ogden, Latifah Blades, Jamie Powlovich
Breakout Sessions 2 - Getting Rapid Re-housing Funded by Your CoC
Creating Flow Through & “Right Sizing” Your System (Videos)
Christopher Callandrillo
Danielle Meister
Breakout Sessions 2 - Employment for a Living Wage
Erin Jacobs Valentine
Tanya Beja
Breakout Sessions 2 - Trans, Gender Non-Confirming, and Non-Binary (TGNCNB) Youth and the Movement to #EndYouthHomelessness
Ben Davis
Cydney & Emmanuel, Advocates for Youth
Jevon Martin
Lee Strock
Ruby Corado
Sophie Cadle
Breakout Sessions 2 - Meaningful Innovation
in Community-based Research
Maryanne Schretzman
Meaningful Innovation in Community Based Housing with Ben Henwood, Robin Petering, and Maryanne Schretzman.
Robin Petering & Nadja Bentley
Breakout Sessions 2 - Rapid Re-Housing Implementation:
Leasing & Landlord Engagement
Dylan McDonough
Day 2
Youth Leaders Share Key Aha Moments from Day 1
Marcelle LaBrecque, Sophie Cadle, Nadja Bentley, Jonathan Ogden, Ziggy Keyes, and Ma’liyah Davis
Research Update: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Exit
Symposium Day 2 Characteristics Videos
Transforming Systems for Change
Transforming Systems for Change (Video) with Marc Dones. Income Now & Cash as Shelter Diversion (Video) with Cynthia Langtiw, Ziggy Keyes, and Jean-Paul Yafali.
Audience Q & A on short-term host homes from the 2018 National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness