💥Please share this fast-approaching opportunity geared for youth ages 18 to 25! 💥 The Anchorage Youth Action Board's A.W.A.Y Summit is set for Monday, May 4, at the University of Alaska Anchorage Den. This event is for anyone who wants to help improve our community's homelessness response for youth with an emphasis on participation by transition-age youth. At the Alaska Wellness for At-Risk Youth Summit, attendees will: ✅Explore strategies to improve outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness. ✅Share resources. ✅Build a solution-oriented future! Youth age 25 and younger are free! Sign up by scanning the QR code on the image.

This Wednesday afternoon, April 29, there will be an opportunity for public testimony on the state capital budget before the House Finance Committee — and your voice is urgently needed. We’re calling on community members, advocates and partners to urge restoration of Homeless Assistance Program (HAP) funds. These funds are critical to keeping people housed, preventing displacement and supporting vulnerable households across our communities. The governor's budget proposed a 50% cut to $5 million, down from $10.15 million in the current year. ⏰Time: Hearing begins at 4:30 p.m. Call in starting at 4:20 p.m. Don't wait too long or testimony may be closed. 🎯Focus: Restore HAP funding in the capital budget How to call in: If you are in Anchorage, 907-563-9085. If you are in Juneau, 907-586-9085. Anywhere else in Alaska, 844-586-9085. Be prepared to give your name, organization if applicable, the committee (House Finance) and the bill (SB214). You'll be put in the queue. In person: Go to your local Legislative Information Office.

Do you ride on People Mover or would you like to? Let your voice be heard by ranking the public transit projects that best suit your needs! The survey closes this Sunday, April 26, so don't delay. Take part, be involved and enter to win a 30-day bus pass or $50 gift card! Scan the code to take part! #PeopleMover #AnchorRides #AncPublicTransit

Volunteers help us serve our unsheltered neighbors. We couldn't do outreach without them! Volunteers help us assemble snack bags on the first Monday of the month. Spots fill up fast! We had a group cancel for May so if you'd like to help, now is a good time. Learn more and sign up: https://www.aceh.org/volunteer Pictured: A few of the volunteers who helped us out in April. They have a good time! #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors #ACEHVolunteers

With an event as big as Project Homeless Connect, it's never too early to start planning! We want to make this year's resource fair the best it can be for our unhoused neighbors. Last year, double the number of people from prior years came in search of supports and supplies. The line stretched around the block for hours! We already have ideas to address the line. How else can we level up this important event, set for Oct. 26 at the Egan Center? If you want to help us plan, and can commit to regularly attending bimonthly planning meetings, let us know by emailing PHC@aceh.org. Thank you in advance! Artwork by Duke Russell shows the line outside the Egan Center at the 2025 Project Homeless Connect. #ProjectHomelessConnect2026 #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors

Calling creative youth! The Alaska Wellness & At-risk Youth Summit is coming up on May 4, and it will include an art showcase! Youth ages 16 to 25 with lived experience in housing instability or systems like foster care, juvenile justice, substance use or anything similar are encouraged to take part. The Anchorage Youth Action Board wants to uplift your voice. Express yourself! Show others the way you see the world. Spread awareness about a solution-oriented future. A.W.A.Y. is hosted by the Anchorage Youth Action Board. Scan the QR code or email: AnchorageYAB@gmail.com #AnchorageYAB #YouthArtShowcase #AWAYsummit #AlaskaWellnessAtriskYouthsummit

🌷 FREE Springtime Legal Clinic – THIS SATURDAY, April 18 ⚖️ No internet? Your library can provide that access! In addition, most branches have laptops that you can borrow while in the library for a private conversation. Loussac Library has desktop computers, but not laptops. Volunteer attorneys will be available on Zoom or the phone to provide free brief legal help on non-criminal legal issues including immigration, family law, voter restoration, housing, probate, bankruptcy and more. Callers or Zoom participants will get in a queue for one-on-one time with a volunteer attorney. Great opportunity! 🗓 April 18 🕒 Noon to 3 p.m. 📍 By Zoom or phone 🔗 Learn more: alaskabar.org/spring

With coordinated, outcome-driven approaches, communities across the country are helping people along a path to stability and safety. Nearly 400 people have been housed in downtown Atlanta. A 45% drop in unsheltered homelessness in Denver. Real stats and real change. Our colleagues at Community Solutions took part in a panel of housing and homelessness experts recently at the Solutions for Housing Communications conference in Washington, D.C. Watch their presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ7j-nv3KHg #HousingIsTheSolution #TailoredSupportsBringStability #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors

Thank you to state Rep. Genevieve Mina and the House Community and Regional Affairs Committee for legislation that will remove a significant barrier for people experiencing homelessness if passed by the full House and Senate! This morning the committee passed HB 334, sponsored by Rep. Mina to provide free state IDs for individuals experiencing homelessness. (Unhoused individuals already can get a free birth certificate.) This may seem small but imagine how hard it would be to the navigate life if you didn't have an ID. Anyone who is literally homeless would qualify. Our organization among others can provide that verification. Rep. Mina had proposed free IDs for young adults experiencing homelessness and the committee approved an amendment to expand the opportunity to all ages. Learn more: https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/34?Root=hb%20334 Pictured in the Capitol in February: Brian Wilson, executive director of the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness, Rep. Mina and Jessica Parks, interim executive director of the Anchorage Coalition on Homelessness. Both Brian and Jessica testified in support of the bill. #SolvingHomelessness

💥Up, up and AWAY! The Anchorage Youth Action Board's A.W.A.Y Summit is set for May 4 at the University of Alaska Anchorage Den. This event is for anyone who wants to help improve our community's homelessness response for youth. At the Alaska Wellness for At-Risk Youth Summit, attendees will: ✅Explore strategies to improve outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness. ✅Share resources. ✅Build a solution-oriented future! Youth age 25 and younger are free! Sign up by scanning the QR code on the image.