100 Day Challenge

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The National 100-Day Challenge (100DC) is an onramp for community members to become active in the movement to prevent and end homelessness among youth and young adults. The 100DCs are structured journeys for frontline teams and leaders that are designed to inspire and enable intense collaboration, continuous innovation, and fast and disciplined execution. Teams start this journey by setting unreasonable goals and developing innovative plans to achieve them. To set the stage for the journey, leaders shape and present a challenge to the team, and they create a “safe space” for the team to experiment and learn.

In October of 2020, our goal was to, in 100 days, house 100 youth aged 18-24 from our Coordinated Entry Master List, 70% of whom are pregnant or parenting and 20% are experiencing domestic violence, trafficking, exploitation, and/or are system involved, with connections to services.

Through this initiative, the 100DC team was able to assess 107 youth, of which, we were able to house 40. Agencies were met with obstacles, but instead of halting services, they found ways to break down these barriers and find alternate ways to house youth. The 100DC team created a social media campaign and collaborated with our community throughout Monterey and San Benito Counties. We partnered with media outlets to spread the news and had participation from various levels of our local government.

The 100DC positioned our Continuum (CoC) to receive the award of five million dollars for the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP). To learn more about YHDP, please visit our YHDP webpage.

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