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Homeless Persons Representation ProjectMaking an Impact:A Timeline of Youth Homelessness Legislation in Maryland2013 – Created Task Force to Study Housing and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth. Members included bipartisan legislators, state executive agencies, community-based providers, and youth. The Task Force issued a comprehensive report and recommendations that elevated the issue and set the legislative agenda for the next several years. 2014 – Established state-led Youth REACH initiative to survey unaccompanied homeless youth and generate data to support policy change, budget priorities, and systems planning. Leading Youth REACH deepens commitment of Department of Housing and Community Development to addressing youth homelessness.2014 – Established tuition waiver for unaccompanied homeless youth attending public higher education institutions and vocational training programs.2014 – Re-established the Maryland Interagency Council on Homelessness to ensure that state executive agencies address homelessness in a focused and coordinated manner. ICH includes a work group focused on youth homelessness.2014 – Created the Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness, a legislative committee in the Maryland General Assembly that oversees the Interagency Council on Homelessness, studies homelessness in Maryland, and recommends relevant legislation and budget priorities. This has generated an increased number of informed and supportive legislators, as well as a forum for briefings and work groups.2015 – Passed legislation requiring courts to make findings in foster care permanency plan review hearings as to whether the child welfare agency has made reasonable efforts to assist the youth with transition planning for stable housing, education, employment, and public benefits.2018 – The Ending Youth Homelessness Act established Maryland’s first grant program at the Department of Housing and Community Development to fund housing and supportive services for unaccompanied homeless youth, with an explicit focus on equity and youth leadership. Youth REACH data was critical to showing that youth homelessness is a pressing issue statewide. Budget advocacy and implementation of the legislation are ongoing.2019-20 – Ongoing efforts to establish that unaccompanied minors experiencing homelessness have legal capacity to consent to emergency shelter admission. ................
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