Is Housing a Structural Intervention for Health in Homeless Youth?

Join distinguished speaker Colette Auerswald for a talk on housing and health of homeless youth. Transitional aged homeless youth 18 to 24 years old suffer health disparities, largely related to prior and ongoing trauma and high-risk behaviors engaged in for survival. Research indicates that providing permanent supportive housing to homeless adults reduces their drug and sexual risk behaviors. Research further suggests that changes in the social networks of homeless youth may reduce such risk behaviors. 

A pediatrician specialized in adolescent medicine, Auerswald is an associate professor of community health and human development in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

RSVP by April 7. Lunch will be served.