STATE OF

THE MOVEMENT

From Struggle to Strategy: Reimagining  Justice For Youth Through Collective Power

Join us for a two-day virtual convening where we will collectively strategize, organize, and reimagine justice. Through engaging discussions, interactive sessions, and shared learning, we will move from struggle to strategy, building collective power toward a more just and liberated future.

Date: June 11th, 2025 & June 12th, 2025 Event

Time: 11am-4 pm EST / 8am-1pm PST

SOTM Purpose:

SOTM is a semi-annual event hosted by A Way Home America & partners to convene movement leaders working to end and prevent youth homelessness to assess the current state of our movement and work together to strategize and combine efforts to prevent and end homelessness for youth and young adults.

June 2025 Event Theme: 

This theme "From Struggle to Strategy: Reimagining Justice For Youth Through Collective Power” emphasizes uniting communities, systems, and advocates to dismantle barriers and co-create transformative pathways for youth justice. It highlights the interconnectedness of justice across housing, families, immigration, the economy, and transformative practices, underscoring that true change requires collective action and shared accountability.

FAQs

  • The focus of the conference will be to strategize and activate collective power to address systemic inequities that impact youth. Each track (based on the Five Pillars to our new deal to End Youth Homelessness) will explore systemic barriers, innovative solutions, and actionable steps to drive change. Workshops and sessions will provide space for deep collaboration, cross-sector learning, and youth-led insights to ensure a holistic approach to justice.

    Day 1: Laying the foundation

    Day 2: Driving Solutions 

    • To unite and combine policy efforts to apply more political pressure toward housing justice legislation

    • To support shifting and sharing power & accountability with youth and young-adults (YYA)

    • To invest in repairing ruptures and rebuilding trust in movement spaces

  • Anyone passionate about ending and preventing youth homelessness! Specifically, this event is designed to resource: Activists, Advocates, Policy Advocates, Policy Makers, Congress members, Organizers, Service Providers, Lived experience experts, Social workers, People seeking service, & youth access services through a Continuum of care. 

  • We’d love to have you!If you want to apply to be a presenter at SOTM 2025 visit: www.bit.ly/sotmsubmit

  • Come as you are! This event is not a formal one. Be comfortable, be flashy, be YOU.