What’s Next for the Anchor Community Initiative?

Posted on March 31, 2020 in Anchor Community Initiative, Equity, Youth and Young Adult Engagement

Our Anchor Communities have been making amazing progress to end youth and young adult homelessness, with one community reaching quality real-time data, and three out of four communities have completed the By-Name List Scorecard. It feels like the perfect time to highlight what’s next for A Way Home Washington and the Anchor Community Initiative. As […]

A Silver Lining

Posted on March 18, 2020 in Youth and Young Adult Engagement

Youth, young adults, and alumni with lived experience have the wisdom and expertise we need to develop effective solutions to youth and young adult homelessness. Justice is a lived experience expert working with our Anchor Community Team in Spokane, and this is their story of why they advocate for young people. When I was 14, […]

Why I Advocate

Posted on March 18, 2020 in Youth and Young Adult Engagement

Youth, young adults, and alumni with lived experience have the wisdom and expertise we need to develop effective solutions to youth and young adult homelessness. Roel is a lived experience consultant, and this is his story of why he advocates for young people. Here’s the thing about working with A Way Home Washington—To me, it […]

Giving Back to My Community

Posted on March 18, 2020 in Youth and Young Adult Engagement

Youth, young adults, and alumni with lived experience have the wisdom and expertise we need to develop effective solutions to youth and young adult homelessness. Sunshine is a lived experience expert working with our Anchor Community Team in Yakima, and this is her story of why she advocates for young people. My past has influenced […]

Our 2020 Legislative Wins

Posted on March 18, 2020 in Legislative Advocacy

On March 12, the legislative session concluded with many victories for the movement to end youth and young adult homelessness. I’m grateful to our legislative champions who passed all our policy and budget priorities. At a time when people experiencing homelessness, including youth and young adults, are especially vulnerable to a public health crisis, we […]

Data to End Youth and Young Adult Homelessness

Posted on February 18, 2020 in Anchor Community Initiative, Behind the Scenes

Data is a critical component of the Anchor Community Initiative. Our Data & Evaluation Director, Liz, explains what data communities are collecting and how it will help communities end youth and young adult homelessness and achieve equitable outcomes. Ending youth and young adult homelessness requires accurate data that tells communities how many young people are […]

Why We Need a Centralized Diversion Fund

Posted on February 18, 2020 in Jim's Vision, Legislative Advocacy

Update: The House and Senate have both included $500,000 towards the Centralized Diversion Fund in their budgets! Please join us in thanking our elected officials for this investment. Email and tweet your legislators here: https://p2a.co/HVFll02 We know that youth and young adult homelessness has many faces. It can look like the high school student who […]

Congratulations, Pierce and Walla Walla!

Posted on February 10, 2020 in Anchor Community Initiative, Behind the Scenes

For the past ten months, our four Anchor Communities have had a singular focus: answering yes to all questions on the Youth and Young Adult By-Name List scorecard and reaching quality, real-time data. In February, two of our Anchor Communities reached exciting milestones: Walla Walla became the first Anchor Community to say yes to all […]

Our 2020 Legislative Priorities

Posted on January 10, 2020 in Legislative Advocacy

Recently, the CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Nan Roman, shared the three elements she’s observed in communities that have successfully ended homelessness: data, funding, and buy-in from political leadership. Throughout the year, we work hard to make sure communities around the state have all three of these elements. During the legislative session, […]

Meet Our Community Engagement Coordinator!

Posted on December 16, 2019 in Youth and Young Adult Engagement

For the past nine years, I’ve been working to end youth and young adult homelessness in different capacities. I’ve worked in advocacy, direct services and creating partnerships. From all these experiences, I’ve learned that to transform systems, we need to listen and bring people together. I started my work in this field at The Mockingbird […]