We are so excited to let you know that we recently launched our newest project to end unaccompanied student homelessness – Student Stability Innovation Grants. YAKIMA is the FIRST community to submit a grant request and it has been APPROVED!!!!
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services will test the use of peer social media influencers to outreach and engage LGBTQ+ unaccompanied students experiencing homelessness in Yakima County, to increase requests for prevention, housing and support services. Grant funds will pay two young people to engage their peers on social media during the summer months when unaccompanied students are harder to reach. The influencers will craft posts, accurately respond to questions, and generate ideas for engaging their followers.
The test period is July-September 2021 and the goal is to increase the number of street outreach enrollments of unaccompanied LGBTQ+ students by 20%. Their baseline data will be the amount of enrollments they have documented from the same time period in 2020.
Student Stability Innovation Grants
The Student Stability Innovation Grants project provides a limited number of grants up to $5,000 per project for Anchor Communities to test truly innovative system changes to prevent and end housing instability for unaccompanied students aged 12-24.
Core Teams can find all the necessary documents, tools and webforms on the Innovation Grants Page on our Resource Hub.
Student Stability Innovation Grants Forms
- Grant Request Form*(required) – To be completed to request funds
- Project Completion Form*(required) – To be completed at the end of the project
*Printable version in the Guidelines
Student Stability Innovation Grants Resources
- Innovations Grant Guidelines
- One Pager – Use this to help spread the word!
- Ending Student Homelessness Change Package – Check out our strategies for identifying change ideas!
- Project and Data Tracking – Document baseline data and actual data
- FAQ – If you have questions, check out our FAQ!
We are so excited for the first of many out-of-the-box change ideas to move our communities closer to ending student homelessness, and homelessness for all unaccompanied young people!
If you have any questions, please reach out to Ashley, ACI Project Director at abarnes-cocke@awayhomewa.org