Our Handbooks & guides
Free, downloadable resources created with youth advocates and community leaders across the country to help you sustainably implement youth-centered interventions to end youth homelessness in your community.
Host Homes Tools for Implementation
Envisioned and co-authored with the expertise of two young people who both have lived experience in host home programs, this new handbook is a guidebook to building strong Host Home program structures by co-creating safe and empowering environments for all young people involved.
Host Homes (hH)
Envisioned and co-authored with the expertise of two young people who both have lived experience in host home programs, this new handbook is a guidebook to building strong Host Home program structures by co-creating safe and empowering environments for all young people involved.
Direct Cash Transfers (DCT)
The DCT Handbook is a comprehensive guidebook that delves into the ideation, implementation, and evaluation of direct cash transfer (DCT) programs, including wrap-around support services, and affirms the importance of trusting young people and placing power and resources directly in their hands.
Rapid Re-housing (rRH)
Featuring best practices from providers across the country, our Rapid Re-housing Handbook 2.0 is designed to support communities of all sizes and geographies uplift and affirm young people experiencing housing instability.
Hire Youth!
Explore our Hire Youth! manual to learn about the foundations, practices, and strategies needed to establish and sustain a peer navigation program in your community.
Peer Navigation
With the help of our National Youth Advocates we have developed this handbook to hire, train and support hundreds of youth mentors to provide peer navigation and support related to HIV prevention, treatment, and care and housing to QTBIPOC youth.
School-Based Host Homes
We worked with our partners in Northfield and Grand Rapids, Minnesota to compile the resources, best practices, and learnings implementing school-based host homes in this free 16-page guidebook.
