Youth Action Board

The Youth Action Board (YAB) works to empower youth and young adults, aged 24 and under, by providing a voice and active participation in the decision-making processes of the CoC. The Youth Action Board strives to ensure that the homeless system of care is responsive to the distinct challenges that youth and young adults may face. 

• Represents youth with lived experience of homelessness within the CoC;
• Develops priorities for the CoC to address barriers that homeless youth face;
• Reviews CoC practices and provides corrective feedback and recommendations on best practices to committees, programs, and other efforts of the CoC;
• Collaborates with CoC training development; and
• Promotes funding opportunities for youth-focused initiatives in the CoC.