HOST HOMES

 community-driven & community-powered

Host homes are a growing, global, short-term housing intervention for young people experiencing homelessness. Building off the continued legacy of QTBIPOC mutual aid practices, host homes provide young people experiencing housing instability with affirming, stable, short-term housing for 1-6 months, wrap-around case management services, and peer support.

The goal of short-term host homes is to provide a safe, temporary, welcoming space for up to six months where young people have time to repair their relationships with self-identified and chosen family and/or make decisions about other housing options with the support of a caring housing case manager and affirming adult mentor.

Download the 119-page Host Homes Handbook

Equipped with everything from job descriptions to an intersectional resource toolkit, our handbook is designed to empower communities across the country working to end youth homelessness through host homes.

We’re Here to Support You

 

Advocacy

We help build community support for youth host homes programs by working with youth advocates, assembling local leaders, and assisting with funding meetings. We help programs identify solutions by bringing together larger networks of leaders to create change from the local level up.

Technical Assistance

We provide intensive technical assistance to help with host home program funding and implementation, hiring/training staff, ongoing support, and troubleshooting, connecting with field experts and other providers, access to a growing resource library, program handbooks, and quarterly webinars with leading providers across the country.

 

Explore our Guide for Creating Successful School-Based Host Home Programs

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. Point Source Youth created this guidebook with the goal of you writing in it, adding to it, sharing it, or using it as a doorstop when you’re helping a young person move into their host home. This is your tool! Enjoy the handbook and, of course, the journey.

Connect with our Team of Technical Assistance Experts

To inquire about technical assistance and/or learn more about implementing or expanding host homes for young people 18-24 in your community please complete the form below.