Date and Location: This free, one-day event takes place on Thursday, January 29 at Amarillo Area Foundation.
Please use the form below to register for the following programming:- Training and Capacity-Building - Professionals Only (2 hours). Utilizing insights from TNOYS’
Amarillo Listening and Learning over the past year, facilitators will lead conversations
and activities on improving services for young people experiencing or
vulnerable to homelessness. Topics will include cross-systems collaborations among systems such as foster care/child welfare, juvenile justice, education, workforce, health/ behavioral health; addressing commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth; efforts to prevent homelessness; gaps in data (including a focus on Coordinated Entry and data sharing with HMIS); employment and education gaps; youth engagement; and more.
- Mixer for Momentum Luncheon - Professionals Only (1 hour). Join us after training and capacity-building for a special networking event! Enjoy food, drinks, fun activities, door prizes, and the chance to build connections across systems.
- Listening and Learning with Providers - Professionals and Youth/Young Adults (2.5 hours). This regional event features a Policy Town Hall
where providers, stakeholders, and youth and young adults (YYA) will share out about the
needs of system-impacted YYA and changes that can better promote their
health and well-being. These insights will help guide TNOYS' statewide
youth policy agenda for the upcoming 90th Texas Legislative Session, as
well as local recommendations that stakeholders can use to better
support youth. Following the town hall, TNOYS will conduct its Statewide Survey on Youth Homelessness.
- Please note that programming for YYA begins around 1:00 p.m. after the luncheon. Food and drinks will be provided for YYA upon arrival.
- Compensation will be provided for YYA attending Listening and Learning programming.
Description: Developed thanks to support from the Amarillo Area Foundation and U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD), this event is part of a larger TNOYS-led initiative to build capacity for stronger, more coordinated systems of care in the Texas panhandle and listen to and learn from local providers and the young people they serve.
Who Should Attend?
We hope to convene a range of YYA, stakeholders, and youth-serving professionals from Amarillo and surrounding communities! This includes those with lived and/or professional experience in all of TNOYS’ seven system areas: child welfare, health and behavioral health, justice, housing and homelessness services, survivor services and preventing/ addressing Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth (CSEY), education, and higher education/workforce. We encourage you to register and spread the word among your networks.