PSY's 3rd Annual Western Conference Youth Homelessness

Point Source Youth is a registered 501(c)3 working to implement, research and scale five interventions – Family Reconnection, Short-Term Host Homes, Rapid Rehousing, High Impact Job Training, and Systems Strengthening – in order to prevent homelessness for all youth, with a special focus on LGBTQ youth and youth of color.  Learn more about us athttp://www.pointsourceyouth.org/.

Point Source Youth

Together we can end youth homelessness! Join PSY for our 3rd Annual Western Conference on Youth Homelessness!

Point Source Youth’s 3rd Western Conference will center on the unique challenges that communities in the Western United States face in the movement to end youth homelessness. Our virtual gathering will offer a space for attendees to connect with providers, advocates, funders, and government officials committed to ending the youth homelessness crisis across the West. Join folks from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, communities large and small across the West Coast, and folks from the Southwest and Rural West. Young people across the West experiencing homelessness at the highest rates in the country, have and continue to create home and community for one another while systems overwhelmingly fail to create affirming, independent housing for them. It’s time for us all to show up and give young folks the resources and the support they deserve. It shouldn’t be the burden of young people across the West experiencing the highest rates of homelessness to solve the problems that systems created for them. Our registration tiers this year reflect a sliding scale, a tool for establishing economic justice. In this registration pricing system, everyone ultimately pays a similar percentage of their individual or organizational income to attend the event. This scale is about recognizing the privileges and resources that make paid events disproportionately more accessible for groups with higher operating budgets and for individuals with greater wealth.We’re committed to making our virtual conference as accessible as possible. We recognize that the impacts of COVID-19 aggravate and deepen already existing forms of systemic oppression. Beyond COVID-19 and its impacts, we realize that individuals and communities experience continued harm and marginalization as a result of long-standing inequities in the US. We hope that this sliding scale facilitates increased access to our virtual events and serves as an invitation for our community to both think and speak deeply about the societal factors that create such stark disparities in wealth and resources in the US. We trust our community to evaluate their needs accordingly. Help us keep our events and movement as accessible as possible!Consider registering at the 'No cost' level if you:<ul><li>Are a youth advocate and/or a young person with lived experience of homelessness.</li><li>Are an unpaid community organizer.</li><li>Are currently experiencing housing instability.</li><li>Make less than a living wage salary.</li><li>Are experiencing financial hardship.</li><li>Are not always able to meet basic needs.</li></ul>Consider registering at the 'Grassroots' level if you:<ul><li>Are an individual registering for the conference (who doesn’t identify with the outlined categories for the “free” tier).</li><li>Are a part of a smaller staffed organization with fewer than 25 staff members.</li><li>Are not experiencing housing instability.</li></ul>Consider registering at the 'Community Organization' level if you:<ul><li>Are part of a medium organization with 25-50 staff members.</li><li>Can afford to take time off.</li><li>Have access to stable housing.</li><li>Are not experiencing housing instability.</li></ul>Consider registering at the 'Large Organization' level if you:<ul><li>Are part of an organization with over 50 staff members.</li><li>Are a recipient of project administrative funds awarded under the CoC and Emergency Solutions Grants.</li><li>Can afford to take time off.</li><li>Have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education, gender identity and expression, racial privilege, socioeconomic background, etc. **Even if you are not currently exercising your earning power, we ask you to recognize this privilege.</li><li>Are not experiencing housing instability.</li></ul>Please email conferences@pointsourceyouth.org with invoice inquiries.If you have accessibility needs, please let us know by filling out the accommodations box on the RSVP form so that we can make sure the event will be accessible and comfortable for you! If you have additional questions, you can email conferences@pointsourceyouth.org.

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