Helping Young People Achieve Their Goals: Affirming Wraparound Services in Direct Cash Transfer Programs

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Direct Cash Transfer (DCT) programs can offer optional support programs with a peer navigator including higher education and career counseling in addition to traditional case management to support youth participating achieve their self-defined goals and dreams. Learn how to provide wraparound services that center the needs of youth without imposing adultist conditions on a young person’s pathway to housing stability. Attendees will learn about non-judgmental assistance when helping clients budget, proper tax documentation, navigating changes in income and protecting benefits for youth, how to assist with banking and account management from a trauma-informed lens, and more.

Speakers:

  • Brittany Garner, Vice President, Programs, Point Source Youth

  • Stephanie Crespo, Peer Navigator, The Ali Forney Center

  • Sofie Fashana, DCT Youth Consultant, Point Source Youth

  • Eliza Wilson, Director of RHY Programs, J Bar J Youth Services

  • Dymin Williams, Youth Consultant, Point Source Youth

  • Landon (LJ) Woolston, Director, DCT, Point Source Youth

 
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