MosaicVillage: A Youth-Informed Platform to Reduce Youth Homelessness Through Collective Impact

摘要 青年无家可归是一个重大且日益严重的公共卫生问题，无家可归的青年 特别容易受到负面健康后果的影响。将这些年轻人与服务联系起来会改善结果， 许多社区正在努力做到这一点。青年无家可归是一个复杂的挑战。一些人 社区正在通过集体影响的方法来解决这个问题，这依赖于五个关键要素：1)共同的 议程；2)共同衡量；3)相辅相成的活动；4)持续沟通和5)a 骨干组织。集体影响需要社区投入大量时间和资源来 建立并保持这一强有力的方法。 该项目的目标是开发和评估基于社区的逐步启用的技术 解决办法，帮助社区实施集体影响办法，解决青年无家可归问题。马赛克村：A 通过集体影响减少青年无家可归的青年知情平台将帮助社区(1) 评估青年需求和社区准备情况，以制定行动计划和制定共同议程，(2) 实现流浪青年与社区服务提供者的实时沟通，(3) 促进利益攸关方之间的持续协作，(4)建立并以数字方式收集数据以进行监控 绩效和结果，以及(5)可视化和共享这些信息。马赛村的长远目标 减少无家可归青年的负面健康后果，结束青年无家可归现象。 在第一阶段，项目团队将使用以人为中心的设计来开发最低限度的可行产品 (MVP)，包含准备评估和规划工具以及要开始的相关培训材料 集体影响实施。具体地说，这些工具将使社区能够：1)识别潜在的 利益攸关方，2)评估无家可归青年的具体需求，3)评估当地服务能力 提供商向他们提供服务，4)确定社区是否准备好承担集体影响 方法，以及5)根据这些初步评估制定行动计划。项目团队将评估 MVP为MosaicVillage建立产品的概念验证和技术可行性。我们将开发 整个MosaicVillage产品处于第二阶段，并使用以下准实验设计评估其效果 以前没有实施MosaicVillage的多个社区。具体地说，我们将测量 全程计划对流浪青年心理健康和行为的影响。

Abstract Youth homelessness is a significant and growing public health problem, with unhoused youth being particularly vulnerable to negative health outcomes. Connecting these youth to services improves outcomes, and many communities are making efforts to do so. Youth homelessness is a complex challenge. Some communities are addressing it by a collective impact approach which relies on five key elements: 1) a common agenda; 2) shared measurement; 3) mutually reinforcing activities; 4) continuous communication and 5) a backbone organization. Collective impact requires communities invest significant time and resources to establish and sustain this powerful approach. The goal for this project is to develop and evaluate a community-based step-by-step technology-enabled solution to help communities implement a collective impact approach to youth homelessness. MosaicVillage: A Youth-Informed Platform to Reduce Youth Homelessness Through Collective Impact will help communities (1) assess youth needs and community readiness to create an action plan and develop a common agenda, (2) implement real-time communication between homeless youth and service providers in the community, (3) facilitate continuous collaboration amongst stakeholders, (4) establish and digitally collect data to monitor performance and outcomes, and (5) visualize and share this information. The long-term goals of MosaicVillage are to reduce negative health outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness and to end youth homelessness. During Phase I, the project team will use human-centered design to develop a minimum viable product (MVP) that contains the Readiness Assessment and Planning Tools and associated training materials to begin collective impact implementation. Specifically, these tools will enable communities to: 1) identify potential stakeholders, 2) assess the specific needs of homeless youth, 3) evaluate the capacity of local service providers to deliver services to them, 4) determine a community’s readiness to undertake a collective impact approach, and 5) create an action plan based upon these initial assessments. The project team will assess the MVP for MosaicVillage to establish the product’s proof of concept and technical feasibility. We will develop the entire MosaicVillage product in Phase II and evaluate its efficacy using a quasi-experimental design with multiple communities where MosaicVillage has not been implemented previously. Specifically, we’ll measure the impact of the full program on the mental health and behaviors of youth experiencing homelessness.