Changing patterns for street involved youth

Strategies to prevent homelessness and outreach to newly homeless youth take on increasing urgency in the context of this data, especially given the tendency of the most recently street-involved youth to be less aware of services and supports than average. [...] The youth of 1960 were not the youth of 1980, and the youth of 1980 are not the youth of today. [...] Over the course of the project dozens of service providers and hundreds of youth in all parts of the city were interviewed in order to learn about the changing needs of youth from all perspectives and from all parts of the urban geography. [...] Respondents were asked both to characterize the different youth populations and to estimate the size of those populations to the best of their ability. [...] The results of these discussions led to the selection of focus group participants and the design of the focus group guide.