Youth Homelessness

HomeSafe

Temporary Youth Homelessness without stable financial assistance and support from family members. We want to make sure that all youths facing homelessness do not face any additional struggles of finding a shelter to stabilise their housing, improve their wellbeing, connect with others within the community, and potentially avoid the chances of going into homelessness again. 

Quick Summary 

A mobile application that can allow youths to seek for shelters by knowing important information relevant to the shelter, ask for help from councilers, and access some useful resources from the resource hub. 

Lessoned Learned

• It is surprising for us to find out about the complexity of youth homelessness it may get. We gained a deeper understanding of the numerous factors contributing to the situation, such as parental conflict and various forms of abuse alongside youths being abandoned for financial issues. On the other hand, the challenges faced by homeless youths in employment and education also revealed the need for resources that address these areas. The resources are not easily accessed or even unknown to some people. No one is excluded from the potential of being homeless. That’s the reason we integrate the resource hub in our application for seamless and timely access to necessary support.

• On the way to creating a viable and valuable solution for society, we learned that research is an important aspect in gaining a deeper understanding of what the problem is, who is affected, and what is needed. The research navigated us to a better solution design where we could think in the users’ mind.  We believe that in every aspect of life, research is indispensable and crucial for constructing a better world. 

Reflection

Overall, this project have made me to learn so many greatful things from the hackathon. I had the opportunity to connect with different mentors to learn about the issues that many youths are currently facing from being homelessness. Working as a team allowed me to contribute more teamwork and learn more ideas from team members, and also allow my team members to learn from me. Attending this hackathon, and completing this project have allowed me to receive an Amazon Gift card. This experience have made me to expand my interest of pursuing a career within UX/UI Design & Research or Product Design relevant in helping a community for their needs.