ABSTRACT

Driven by the increasing number of homeless youth and young adults in Central Virginia and a lack of resources for this population, a Community Service Board (CSB) formed Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals (CABHI), a multi-disciplinary program to address these problems, which included mental health and substance use, housing, and employment. The purpose of this article is to present a case study of the development and accomplishmentsand to relate the development and accomplishments of CABHI to the literature on youth and young adult homelessness, which may provide generalized lessons that other agencies may consider when addressing youth homelessness.

摘要

在中维吉尼亚州无家可归的青年和年轻人越来越多以及该人群缺乏资源的驱动下，社区服务委员会（CSB）制定了《使无家可归者受益的合作协议》（CABHI），这是一个解决这些问题的跨学科计划，包括心理健康和物质使用，住房和就业。本文的目的是提供一个案例研究，以研究CABHI的发展和成就，并将CABHI的发展和成就与有关青年和青年成人无家可归的文献联系起来，这可以提供其他机构在解决青年无家可归问题时可以考虑的概括性课程。