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**Please forward this alert to colleagues and community partners and ask them to act.** In the Senate, Senators Padilla (D-CA) and Murkowski (R-AK) invite Senators to co-sign a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" appropriations letter to the Labor-HHS-Ed Appropriations Subcommittee requesting robust funding for the Runaway and Homeless [...]

The fact sheet has been updated with the FY 2025 guidance for Community Project Funding (U.S. House Earmarks) released on April 25, 2024. There is $1.4 trillion of federal money on the table that community-based nonprofits and schools can access. NN4Y has released a new fact sheet that tells you [...]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released a new pilot, Direct File, to allow people to file their taxes directly and virtually with the IRS at no cost. This pilot only supports simple tax needs, including the Earned Income Tax Credit. Qualifications for Direct File At this time, [...]

**Please forward this alert to colleagues and community partners and ask them to act.** A bipartisan “Dear Colleague” letter is circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives that calls for $304 million for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA) program and $800 million for [...]

This weekend, Congress passed the final Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget package. NN4Y advocated for increased funding for programs targeted to prevent and respond to youth homelessness and several other policy provisions. Read our summary below to see where federal programs we care about landed for FY24. Top Four [...]

On February 28, 2024, the National Network for Youth hosted a congressional briefing in collaboration with Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) focused on the bipartisan bicameral Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking [...]

By Youth and Allies Against Homelessness (YAAH) – a research team based in Innovations for Youth (i4Y) at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Dear fellow advocates for youth experiencing homelessness, We are writing to announce the release of the evidence-based Guidelines to Prevent, Address, [...]

On December 15, 2023, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released its 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report Part I (AHAR). The report shows a 12% increase in the overall number of people in homeless shelters, or people who were in a visibly unsheltered situation, on a [...]

“I was homeless and forced into trafficking at 18. I bounced from friend to friend and shelter to shelter. I became a mother, got my first apartment, and also got evicted at 19. Despite my efforts to build a brighter future for myself and my daughter [earned an associates [...]