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It's appropriations season and it is important that members of Congress hear from their constituents that we want them to fully fund critical juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs for Fiscal Year 2020. Federal investments play an essential role in state juvenile justice efforts to protect youth, prevent delinquency, and promote safe communities. Your support helped get the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) reauthorized in the last Congress; now we need to ensure that our elected officials continue to adequately fund the provisions of the JJDPA that allow states to adopt evidence-based practices, conduct essential research and improve their justice approaches.

Personalized messages are especially effective - you can edit the draft message below with your own personal story or talking points!

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We ask for the U.S. Senate to increase\nFY 2020 funding levels for the two federal programs specifically targeted to\nsupport children and youth experiencing homelessness: the Runaway and Homeless\nYouth Act (RHYA) programs and the McKinney-Vento Act\u2019s Education for Homeless\nChildren and Youth (EHCY) program. Specifically, we request at least $165 for\nRHYA and $115 million for EHCY.

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RHYA\nserves young people at-risk of and experiencing homelessness by meeting their\nimmediate needs, providing short and long-term residential services, and\nconducting prevention and outreach efforts to move youth out of homelessness.\nWithout emergency and transitional housing and crisis intervention, young\npeople experiencing homelessness are\u00a0at\neven greater risk for trafficking and other life-threatening conditions.

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EHCY removes barriers to the\nenrollment, attendance, and success of homeless children and youth in school.\nWithout this specific, targeted assistance, homeless children and youth are\nunlikely to benefit from any investment in education, and are at much higher\nrisk of experiencing homelessness as adults.

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Personalized messages are especially\neffective \u2013 please consider sharing your own story and explaining why this\nissue is important to you!

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As the House considers the justice appropriations bill, please take a moment today to Tweet your Representative and urge them to vote YES on three key amendments to the CJS appropriations bill, H.R. 3055. \u00a0

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\n\nDuring the 16 years that the JJDPA went unauthorized, federal juvenile justice funding decreased by nearly 48 percent nationally, and more in some states. As written, H.R. 3055 does little to remedy the decreasing juvenile justice funds accessible on federal and state levels. Please urge your Representative to support these three amendments -- Scanlon Amendment #2, Neguse Amendment #77 and Scott/Foxx Amendment #12 -- to increase funding for the JJDPA and youth justice programs in states. (For detail on the amendments, check out this summary.)

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Please take a moment to reach out to your Senator to let them know that it's vital that juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs are fully funded in the Fiscal Year 2020 budget. States need these funds to improve justice approaches, protect youth and promote safe communities. Congress recently reauthorized the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), and must now ensure full funding so that states have the capacity to successfully implement this law. Sending a message through our system is safe, easy and effective.

Personalized messages are especially effective - you can edit the draft message below with your own personal story or talking points!

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Homeless children and youth stay wherever they can and are often forced to move frequently between living situations because there is no family or youth shelter in the community, shelters are full, or shelter policies exclude them. These children and youth face real harm, including negative emotional, educational, and health outcomes; they are at extremely high risk of physical and sexual abuse and trafficking.

Federal child and youth programs recognize all of the forms of homelessness that children and youth experience, but the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) does not. HUD prevents some of the most vulnerable homeless children and youth from accessing the programs and services that they need and ignores those children and youth who grow up to become the chronically homeless adults of tomorrow.

The Homeless Children and Youth Act would return decision-making to local communities and protect vulnerable children and youth. It would allow communities to serve the homeless children and youth they identify as most in need of assistance, by aligning HUD Homeless Assistance eligibility criteria with other federal programs. HCYA would empower local communities to use resources most efficiently to prevent and end homelessness in both the short- and long-term.

Please urge your representatives to sign on as a co-sponsor of the Homeless Children and Youth Act today to help over one million homeless children and youth lead safer, healthier lives and have a better chance for a brighter future.

Personalized messages are especially effective - please consider editing the draft message below with your own personal experiences or talking points!

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