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Homeless and Unstably Housed Youth

Project: Baltimore's Homeless Youth
Partner: Baltimore's Homeless Youth Initiative (BHYI)
 
Publications:
 
September, 2009. Charles, Vignetta, Astone, Nan, Blanchard, Jayne. "Fostered Space for the Homeless Child." Socio Design Foundation. Retrieved October 10, 2009 from: http://www.sociodesignfoundation.org/2010compseriesstreetscharlesblanchardastone.html
 
September, 2009. Charles, Vignetta. "Down for the Count: Getting the Numbers on Youth Homelessness." National Clearinghouse of Families and Youth Newsletter. Retrieved October 9, 2009 from:
 
Presentations:
 
June, 2009. Charles, Vignetta, Lyn, Aleya, Astone, Nan. "Youth Count Methodology." Presentation: MACCH Youth Task Force, Omaha, NE.
 
October, 2008. Charles, Vignetta and Rae, Jessica. "Policy Changes Around Informal Kinship Care in Maryland." Facilitated discussion: Maryland Call to Action for Homeless Youth: Identifying a Statewide Agenda in Annapolis, Baltimore Homeless Youth Initiative, Baltimore, MD.
 
July, 2008. Charles, Vignetta. “Getting Better Point-in-Time Counts.” Presentation: National Alliance to End Homelessness Annual Conference, Washington, DC.

July, 2008. Charles, Vignetta. “Getting to Know Baltimore's Homeless Youth.” Presentation: Baltimore Homeless Youth Initiative Policy Forum, Baltimore, MD.

April, 2008. Charles, Vignetta and Sonenstein, Freya. “Uncounted and Discounted: Baltimore's Homeless Youth” Briefing: City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and her senior staff, Baltimore, MD.

March, 2008. Charles, Vignetta. “Counting Baltimore’s Homeless Youth: Finding and advocating for an invisible population.” Lecture: Baltimore City Public School System Social Workers Association Professional In-Service, Baltimore, MD.

December 3-4, 2007. Charles, Vignetta. “Counting Homeless Youth: Finding and advocating for an invisible population.” Conference: Estimation Methods for Counting Homeless Youth, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.

October, 2007. Charles, Vignetta. “Counting Baltimore’s Homeless Youth: Finding and advocating for an invisible population.” Presentation: Baltimore City Public School System Social Workers Association Professional In-Service, Baltimore, MD.

September, 2007. Charles, Vignetta. “Counting Baltimore’s Homeless Youth: Finding and advocating for an invisible population.” Presentation: Mid-Atlantic Network for Youth Conference A Call to Action: Baltimore’s Homeless Youth, Baltimore, MD

December 12, 2005. Humphrey, Layne, Bowie, Liz, Pologe, Ross, Stagner, Matthew, & Chambers Jr., Samuel. “Iven & Gary: Can We Do More for Baltimore’s Unstably-Housed Youth?” Forum: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
 
 
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Media Highlights:
 
 
2009. "New Homeless Census Kicks Off," news story about the 2009 Homeless Census Count and the Center's parallel count of homeless youth by Sherrie Johnson, WMAR-TV 2, aired January 23, 2009.
 
2009. "Survey Teams Seek Out Growing Ranks of Homeless," a follow-up article about the 2009 Homeless Census Count and the Center's parallel count of homeless youth by Gus Sentementes, Baltimore Sun newspaper, January 23, 2009.
 
 
2009. "Volunteers Begin Count of Baltimore's Homeless," a news article about the 2009 Homeless Census Count and the Center's parallel count of homeless youth by Gus Sentementes, Baltimore Sun newspaper, January 22, 2009.
 
2009. "Homeless Survey to Focus on Youth, Foreclosure," a news article about the 2009 Homeless Census Count and the Center's parallel count of homeless youth by Jaime Malarkey, Baltimore Examiner newspaper, January 22, 2009.
 
 
2008. "Housing and Health," op-ed about housing and homeless young people written by Sarah Oberlander, Margo Candelaria, and Maureen Black. Baltimore Sun newspaper, October 23, 2008.
 
2008. “The Unlined Face of Homelessness,” op-ed about homeless youth written by Nan Astone and Vignetta Charles. Baltimore Examiner newspaper on June 3, 2008.
 

2008. “Baltimore’s Only Emergency Shelter for Homeless and Runaway Teens Shuts Down,” radio story about Baltimore’s homeless youth featuring Vignetta Charles, MPH, and Community Advisory Board (CAB) chair Ross Pologe. Aired on WYPR radio June 6, 2008. 

 
 
 
 
 
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