Cross-Systems Collaboration: Examining the Perspectives and Experiences of Vulnerable Youth and Service Providers

“Certainly, there is a lot of work that looks at each of these issues on their own, so the studies about child welfare or about homelessness or about educational difficulties. There is even a fair amount of work that looks at issues from the perspective of, say, two systems, so for example, how kids experiencing homelessness do in school and the challenges they have or how kids in foster care might do in school. But, there is really a lot less work that looks at things explicitly from the view of multiple systems and tries to tackle this issue of when kids are involved in more than one system how can those systems come together in a more effective way to serve the issues that cross-systems youth face?”