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To build the evidence base of interventions to prevent homelessness among youth in foster care or young adults who were formerly in foster care, the Children’s Bureau (CB) developed the “Building Capacity to Evaluate Interventions for Youth/Young Adults with Child Welfare Involvement At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH)” grant program. YARH is a multiphase competitive grant program that aims to support the development and evaluation of comprehensive service models to meet the needs of youth...

The Children’s Bureau funded a multi-phase grant program referred to as Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) to build the evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults...

In September 2013, the Children’s Bureau awarded 18 grantees two-year planning grants to develop a comprehensive service model to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults with child welfare involvement. This report from Phase I of Building Capacity to Evaluate Interventions for Youth/Young Adults with Child Welfare Involvement At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH)...

This brief describes the multiphase evidence-building process YARH undertook to select the Colorado Pathways to Success comprehensive service model for the YARH-3 summative evaluation and to support YARH-2 grantees not yet ready for summative evaluation in identifying lessons learned and possible next evidence-building steps.

 

The analytic plan for the descriptive report “Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: An Early Picture of Youth and Services. Examining a Coach-like Case Management Program for Youth and Young Adults with Foster Care Histories”

This brief describes the process of modifying the dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) mindfulness curriculum within the Youth Transitions Partnership for transition-age youth and young adults in foster care in Alameda County, California during the Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) grant program funded by the Children’s Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a process for enhancing the operation and performance of a program or practice through regularly collecting and analyzing data and identifying and testing change strategies. In this brief, local evaluators working with two agencies, Alameda County, California, and the Colorado Department of Human Services, describe how their teams used CQI to learn from the initial implementation of model interventions designed to prevent homelessness among youth...

The Children’s Bureau funded a multi-phase grant program referred to as Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) to build the evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults...

This infographic describes the multi-phased Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) project. This grant program started in 2013 to build evidence on what works in preventing homelessness among youth and young adults with previous involvement with the child welfare system.

This analytic plan serves as the foundation for a summative evaluation that Mathematica and ACF are conducting as part of YARH-3 in partnership with the Colorado Department of Human Services and the Center for Policy Research.