Events

Youth Homelessness Matters Day was developed to:

• Raise Public Awareness about youth homelessness and the factors that cause it. Most people have an image of homelessness as being about older people sleeping rough on the streets. Also that youth homelessness is everyone’s business.
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• Celebrate the Resilience of Young People to convey a message that young people experiencing homelessness are homeless, but not helpless! YHMD aims to communicate that with good support and accommodation young people can move forward and live their lives productively. 
• Provide information to the general public about how they can help to end youth homelessness.  Many community members are sympathetic to the plight of homeless people however often find it hard to know how they can help.  YHM Day aims to help people get not only facts and figures on homelessness but how to directly aid homeless young people in their community.

Visit the Youth Homelessness Matters Day website for more information, details about events happening nationally, and events that were held in 2009.

Registered users of this Clearinghouse are invited to login to the site and add their events.