Point Source Youth

We have to show up for trans young people in the South. Trans youth experience some of the highest levels of discrimination and overindex in the youth homelessness population. Watch this recording from our 2021 Southern Symposium to learn how your community and organizations can better support trans-led movements on the ground, support trans youth, and advocate for trans liberation. Learn from Vanity Reid Deterville, GRASP Program Director at The LGBTQ Center of Durham, Jesse Pratt López, Founder, Current Executive Director at Trans Housing Coalition, and Kayla Gore, Founder and Executive Director at My Sistah’s House. Click the link in our bio to learn more.

We have to show up for trans young people in the South. Trans youth experience some of the highest levels of discrimination and overindex in the youth homelessness population. Watch this recording from our 2021 Southern Symposium to learn how your community and organizations can better support trans-led movements on the ground, support trans youth, and advocate for trans liberation. Learn from Vanity Reid Deterville, GRASP Program Director at The LGBTQ Center of Durham, Jesse Pratt López, Founder, Current Executive Director at Trans Housing Coalition, and Kayla Gore, Founder and Executive Director at My Sistah’s House. Click the link in our bio to learn more.

To learn from each other, we have to connect. Ending youth homelessness means collaborating and being intentional about evolving our best practices for working with youth, designing programs, and funding the movement. Register for our 5th Annual National Symposium to connect with folks from all kinds of communities throughout the country and learn about what’s working for youth right now and how your organization or your advocacy can help implement meaningful changes. Click t...he link to secure your login now: https://www.pointsourceyouth.org/nationalsymposium2021 The Point Source Youth team wants to do all that we can to keep our movement vibrant and connected through our events. Let us know if we can support your organization by helping to register your team at no cost-- email us at [email protected] for assistance with registering your group. Thank you to Gilead, Deutsche Bank, and Raikes Foundation for sponsoring this event! Gilead Sciences Deutsche Bank Raikes Foundation

We have to make a practice of creating opportunities for dialogue between young people, service providers, funders and policy makers to create systems that actually center the needs of young people. Advocates who are working to end youth homelessness can learn so much about how to best serve youth in the present and for years to come from young people and each other. Join us at our 5th Annual National Symposium to connect with folks from across the country who are committed t...o ending youth homelessness, from young people to service providers, funders, and beyond. Click the link to learn more and register: https://www.pointsourceyouth.org/nationalsymposium2021 The Point Source Youth team wants to do all that we can to keep our movement vibrant and connected through our events. Let us know if we can support your organization by helping to register your team at no cost-- email us at [email protected] for assistance with registering your group.

We appreciate all of the hard work that went into making the 1st Rural Conference on Youth Homelessness. Thank you to all of our sponsors for providing integral support for these events. Thank you to all of our speakers, attendees, and every advocate who showed up for rural communities. We hope that you all gained new perspectives and knowledge and forged connections that will help end youth homelessness in rural communities. Join us again next year at our next Rural Conference and at our other virtual events this year! Click the link in our bio to learn about future events!

Secure your login to hear keynote speaker Ash-lee Woodard Henderson discuss dismantling rural assumptions that have been informed by white supremacist, settler colonialism and examine how rural BIPOC leadership has and continues to pave the way for liberation. Join us on May 18th and 19th to hear from Ash-lee and other rural community leaders who are committed to ending youth homelessness. Click the link to register now: https://www.pointsourceyouth.org/ruralconference Thank you to Illinois HIV Care Connect + Community Partner Sponsor!

Happy holidays from our team! With your support, we accomplished so much in an exceptionally difficult year. Help us continue to build the movement to end youth homelessness nationwide! In 2021, we're growing our community to partner with new grassroots organizations and folks working on the ground to ensure that all youth are housed and empowered. We're also expanding our programming to service more providers and young people who need technical assistance and our support to end youth homelessness. Make a holiday contribution today to support our mission: https://www.pointsourceyouth.org/donate

Young people deserve to be heard by good listeners. Youth collaboration belongs at the center of the movement to end youth homelessness. Learn how your organization can begin to more meaningfully implement policies centered in youth choice and empowerment. Check out this graphic recording from our 4th Annual National Symposium on Solutions to end youth homelessness to learn how youth advocates and direct service providers see active listening as a critical component of ending youth homelessness. Click this link to view more Symposia resources: https://www.pointsourceyouth.org/2020-national-symposium-vi