marissa alcorn presentation

1. Fourth annual trip
March 13 – 17, 2017
Three Days On the Hill

2. We exist to be the
knowledgeable statewide voice
that influences policies and
practices that effect all youth who
have or will experience out of
home care.
OHIO Youth Advisory Board
Mission Statement

3. Training location sponsored
by the National Center for
Housing and Child Welfare

4. Training Day

5. • In December of 2014, Ohio foster
care youth proposed and designed
a transitional housing model call
HUD-FASH and requested that it
be piloted in Ohio.
• Their proposal is modeled after an
existing successful program, the
HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive
Housing (HUD-VASH) program,
which combines Housing Choice
Vouchers and rental assistance
with case management.
HUD-FASH

6. • HUD-FASH is specifically designed to serve former foster
care youth experiencing homelessness (including couch-
surfing) through a Housing First approach that combines a
housing choice voucher rental assistance with case
management and clinical services where needed.
• The primary goal of this program is to prevent
homelessness for this vulnerable population, and to lay the
foundation for future housing stability.
• A key component of the program is case management
service, designed to improve foster care alumni's ability to
achieve and maintain stable housing in the future.
HUD-FASH

7. Chafee challenge:
No funding increase
since 1999

8. Chafee challenge:
Serving additional
youth

9. Meeting with HUD and
HHS

10. Voices of Youth Count
at Chapin Hall

11. Congresswoman
Joyce Beatty,
Champion on the Hill

12. Congressman
Mike Turner,
Champion on the Hill

13. Congressman
Pat Tiberi

14. National Council of
Jewish Women

15. Congressman
Brad Wenstrup

16. Congressman
Steve Chabot

17. Senator Sherrod
Brown’s Office

18. Celebratory Dinner,
sponsored by Casey
Foundation

19. Memories
from the trip…