Street Outreach Data Collection Fact Sheet
Street Outreach Data Collection Fact Sheet
Mission
The mission of the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is to support the organizations and communities that work every day to reduce the risk of youth homelessness, adolescent pregnancy and domestic violence.
Purpose
To better understand the needs of youth served by the Street Outreach Program, FYSB funded 11 grantees at the end of FY10 to participate in a data collection effort in partnership with the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF). During the first year, grantees participated in a planning meeting in Washington, DC, to discuss the data needed and a feasible method for collecting that data. FYSB staff then conducted a literature review of data collection methodologies used with homeless street populations and searched for researchers with expertise in studying homeless youth. In FY12, grantees contracted with the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL) to design the study, work with ACYF on obtaining Office of Management and Budget (OMB) clearance, and train the 11 grantee agencies in how to implement the data collection. In FY13, grantees conducted personal interviews and focus groups with homeless youth, employing Respondent Driven Sampling and convenience sampling methods. A final report will be available in 2014.
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National Clearinghouse on Families & Youth
5515 Security Lane, Suite 800, North Bethesda, MD 20852
Telephone: (301) 608-8098
Fax: (301) 587-4352
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