Displaced Youth Multi-Disciplinary Team (DYMDT)

The community-based DYMDT brings agencies and community partners together every other week to identify students living in homeless situations and collaboratively assign responsibility to ensure outreach includes a myriad of resources from housing to social services. The unique Yuba County community collaboration has proven to yield major dividends for homeless children. The initiative is a strengths-based coordinated approach to create an action plan designed to achieve and maintain a permanent and healthy living environment for identified homeless youth. The confidential DYMDT meetings allow partner agencies and community and faith-based organizations to collectively assess needs and bring a host of resources to the table to serve youth and their families who are experiencing or are at risk of homelessness.

Community Partners

The team consists of representatives from: Yuba County Health and Human Services including Child and Adult Protective Services and CalWORKS; Yuba County Probation including Victim Witness; Sutter-Yuba Behavioral Health; Salvation Army; Family Resource Center; Youth For Change; First 5 E Center; and Yuba County Children’s Wellness and Child Abuse Prevention Council along with educational partners: Marysville Joint Unified School District, Yuba County Office of Education, Plumas Lake School District and Wheatland School District.