As selected Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) Communities are creating and implementing their Coordinated Community Plans, there are many lessons learned and resources developed that are helpful to all communities as they work on preventing and ending homelessness among youth.
This project profile published by NCHE explores the role of education in HUD's YHDP program; summarizes key education outcomes, lessons learned, and technical assistance provided to YHDP communities; and shares cross-system innovations and promising practices for preventing and ending youth and young adult homelessness in urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Date Published: March 2021
Leveraging YHDP Funding - Lessons from Santa Cruz, CA
YHDP Round I community Santa Cruz, CA, successfully leveraged YHDP funding to engage new partners, funding, and resources in the development of a coordinated community response to preventing and ending youth homelessness.
Date Published: February 2021
Rural YHDP Application - Lessons Learned from New Mexico
Northern New Mexico, a YHDP Round II rural site, shares their experience on the benefits of the application planning process and lessons learned along the way.
Date Published: February 2021
YHDP Transitional Housing-Rapid Rehousing Joint Component Project
When YHDP launched in 2016, one of its key housing strategies was the Transitional Housing-Rapid Rehousing (TH-RRH) joint component project. This document provides an overview of the models, benefits, and challenges to implementing TH-RRH projects.
Date Published: February 2021
Overcoming Rural Specific Obstacles to Ending Youth Homelessness
Through HUD’s investment in seventeen rural YHDP sites, we have learned about a variety of obstacles impacting efforts to prevent and end youth homelessness. This document offers community-based solutions to these obstacles to provide rural partners with ideas on addressing their own obstacles towards ending youth homelessness.
Date Published: February 2021
YHDP Foundations & Beyond: Coordinated Community Plan
This document provides an overview of a Coordinated Community Plan (CCP) and the key components and actions needed for the development of a strong youth homelessness response system.
Date Published: February 2021
Considerations for Overnight Travel with Youth and Young Adults
This guide supports communities in advising Youth and Young Adults (YYA) about overnight travel as part of their work on a Youth Action Board and other work-related travel. Best practices, important considerations, and anecdotal lessons learned are included.
Date Published: August 2019
As the YHDP Communities are learning through their work, it is important to share those lessons with all communities. This page contains the lessons learned throughout the YHDP planning and implementation process.
Date Published: February 2021
In November 2018 HUD and True Colors Fund hosted a webinar for communities to learn about creating authentic and meaningful partnerships with youth who have experienced housing instability or homelessness.
Date Published: November 2018
A central requirement of the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) is that each selected community develops a coordinated community plan (CCP) to prevent and end youth homelessness. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed YHDP to allow for up to 6 months of initial planning together with a significant level of direct HUD technical assistance followed by up to 6 months of additional time for HUD feedback and plan edits by the community. The planning process is expected to lay the ground work for implementation and provide a framework for the various projects that the Continuum of Care (CoC) Collaborative Applicant will request HUD to fund within the selected community. All of YHDP Round 1 Communities had their CCPs approved by HUD by the due date of January 13, 2018. The most recent versions of the CCPs are included below.
Note that communities may update their CCPs at any time during the demonstration. They are required to revise the CCP if they change project models or funding allocations. If a community revises their CCP, the revised version will be posted here and a notation will be made if the CCP is a revised version.
All CCPs listed below were posted on April 6, 2018.
All CCPs listed below were posted on April 15, 2019.
All CCPs listed below were posted on December 1, 2020.
All CCPs listed below were posted on September 26, 2022.
100-Day Challenges are part of HUD’s national toolkit to identify and execute innovative practices to end youth and young adult homelessness. Since July 2017, multiple cohorts of communities have engaged in challenges to accelerate efforts to prevent and end youth homelessness through intense collaboration, innovation, and execution of ambitious local goals.
The purpose of the 100-Day Challenge is to help catalyze community action to establish bold, creative, and innovative ways to help youth experiencing homelessness find stable housing. Read each community’s summary and case study reports below.
Summer 2020 Cohort 6: 100-Day Challenge Summary Report
Spring-Summer 2020 Cohort 5: 100-Day Challenge Summary Report
Summer 2019 Cohort 4: 100-Day Challenge Summary Report
Fall-Winter 2018-2019 Cohort: 100-Day Challenge Summary Report
Fall-Winter 2017-2018 Cohort: 100-Day Challenge Summary Report
Summer-Fall 2017 Cohort: 100-Day Challenge Summary Report
100-Day Challenge Case Study: HUD Cohort 4 - Youth Prioritization for Housing and Services
100-Day Challenge Summary: Baltimore, MD
100-Day Challenge Summary: Central Alabama
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Central Alabama - Partnerships with Municipal Courts
100-Day Challenge Summary: Charleston, SC
100-Day Challenge Summary: Columbus, OH
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Columbus, OH - Creating and Utilizing a Youth By-Name List
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Columbus, OH - Appendix D. By-Name List Structure
100-Day Challenge Summary: Franklin County, ME
100-Day Challenge Summary: Gulf Coast, MS
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Gulf Coast, MS - Transition Planning
100-Day Challenge Summary: Hennepin County, MN
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Hennepin County, MN - Authentic Youth Engagement
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Hennepin County, MN - Employment and Housing Systems Integration
100-Day Challenge Summary: Horry County, SC
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Horry County, SC - Outreach and Identification of Youth
100-Day Challenge Summary: Ithaca/Tompkins County, NY
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Ithaca/Tompkins County, NY - Circles of Support for Youth
100-Day Challenge Summary: Jacksonville, FL
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Jacksonville, FL - Youth-Focused Staff Positions
100-Day Challenge Summary: Kings/Tulare Counties, CA
100-Day Challenge Summary: Las Vegas/Southern Nevada, NV
100-Day Challenge Summary: Louisville, KY
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Louisville, KY - CoC and Police Department Collaboration
100-Day Challenge Summary: Marion County, OR
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Marion County, OR - Serving Youth Under the Age of 18
100-Day Challenge Summary: Mendocino County, CA
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Mendocino County, CA - Increasing Community Collaboration and Outreach
100-Day Challenge Summary: Miami-Dade County, FL
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Miami-Dade County, FL - New & Innovative Connections With Youth
100-Day Challenge Summary: Monroe County, FL
100-Day Challenge Summary: Monroe County, PA
100-Day Challenge Summary: Monterey/San Benito Counties, CA
100-Day Challenge Summary: Northern Michigan
100-Day Challenge Summary: North Central West Virginia
100-Day Challenge Case Study: North Central West Virginia - Youth-Focused Behavioral Health Outreach
100-Day Challenge Summary: Palm Beach County, FL
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Palm Beach County, FL - Shared Housing Model for Youth
100-Day Challenge Summary: Prince George's County, MD
100-Day Challenge Summary: Sacramento, CA
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Sacramento, CA - Addressing Mental Health as a Barrier to Housing
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Sacramento, CA - Serving Pregnant & Parenting Youth
100-Day Challenge Summary: San Bernardino County, CA
100-Day Challenge Case Study: San Bernardino County, CA: Authentic Youth Leadership and Engagement
100-Day Challenge Summary: Santa Barbara County, CA
100-Day Challenge Summary: Suburban Cook County, IL
100-Day Challenge Case Study: Suburban Cook County, IL - Collaboration With School Districts
100-Day Challenge Summary: West Tennessee
100-Day Challenge Case Studies: West Tennessee - Education and Outreach to Adult Providers