Preventing and Ending Youth Homelessness in Massachusetts
Research & Practice Seminar Series: Youth Homelessness in Massachusetts
Speaker: Alice Colegrove, Director, Homeless Youth Services, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Alice Colegrove directs Homeless Youth Services within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services and is leading the statewide effort to prevent and end youth homelessness in Boston and Massachusetts. This presentation will offer a data-driven lens to discuss what it will take to achieve the State’s goal of “a future where experiences of youth homelessness are rare, brief, and non-recurring, and where every youth and young adult is safe, supported and able to use their strengths fully.”
Moderator: Margaret Sullivan, Instructor, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights
Family Nurse Practitioner and Director, Oasis Clinic, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
About the Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH)
The IHH Research and Practice Seminar Series brings together providers, system leaders, advocates, researchers, people with lived expertise, and others from across the country and internationally to highlight important strategies that work, address emerging challenges, and discuss innovative solutions and insights to the complex issue of homelessness.