The goal of Housing-Focused Street Outreach is to help individuals find and maintain housing, with robust support before and after the transition. Effective warm hand-offs to housing providers and ongoing support for 30–90 days following move-in are vital for successful transitions. Data policies will be set up to align with program standards for how follow-up is completed. Participants should not be enrolled in both street outreach and a housing program in HMIS at the same time.
The Street Outreach Program enables organizations around the country to help young people out of homelessness and into safe shelter. To that end, the program promotes efforts by its grantees to build relationships between street outreach workers and runaway, homeless, and street youth.
The program’s primary goal is to provide street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth under the age of 21 and who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of trafficking; and to build relationships between street outreach workers and runaway, homeless, and street youth to move youth into stable housing and prepare them for independence.
