Point Source Youth

10/23/2026

More than 600 people. Over 100 young people. Two days of ideas, exchange, and collaboration.
Now we turn that momentum into the work to prevent and end youth homelessness.

10/22/2026

Point Source Youth is partnering with The Y in Central Maryland to bring direct cash prevention and support to another 50 young people at imminent risk of homelessness. On stage at the National Symposium, Derryck Fletcher, Chief Operating Officer of The Y in Central Maryland, reflected on what this partnership is asking all of us to rethink: "Thank you to the entire Point Source team for forcing us to think differently and more expansively about how we partner with young people in supporting their construction of what success looks like for them."
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10/21/2026

“Support becomes agency.” -Bonnie Wallace, Wells Fargo Foundation

Young people know what they need to stay housed. The problem is they don’t always have the money to make it happen. That’s what direct cash changes. Instead of telling a young person what the solution should be, direct cash gives them the resources to act on the plan they already have. And here’s the other thing: prevention is a whole lot cheaper than waiting for someone to become homeless.

10/21/2026

"I dream of a world where...every person young and old has a safe place to call home." That was one of the hundreds of statements attendees wrote about what brought them to this work and what keeps them in it. This activation was a living, growing testament to the commitment and dedication of the community doing this work to end youth homelessness.

10/20/2026

"Young people are the experts in their own lives." - Dr Calvin Ball, County Executive, Howard County Maryland

Howard County is pledging $175,000 to the direct cash program that lets young people be "experts in their own lives" and prevent a housing crisis from ever happening.

10/19/2026

“Systems move slowly. Young people do not have that kind of time.”

At the National Symposium, Lauren Gamelin VanKeulen, CEO of AYA Youth Collective in Grand Rapids, said we need to stop waiting for perfect conditions and start with what’s possible. That means pairing flexible cash with real, relationship-based support, learning quickly, and building from what works. It also means designing systems not just around the young people who make it through the door, but around the young people who never get there.

10/19/2026

LGBTQ young adults are more than twice as likely to experience homelessness, and that hasn’t changed in two decades. What’s standing in the way?

Unclosete Media spoke with young people, researchers, and advocates, including PSY co-founder Larry Cohen and youth consultant Tre’Darian Daniels. They discuss why direct cash paired with ongoing support can help young people stay housed before a crisis hits.

LGBTQ young adults are more than twice as likely to experience homelessness as their non-LGBTQ peers, national research shows.

10/18/2026

By the time a young person receives direct cash, they haven’t just started thinking about what they need. They’ve often been planning for a long time.

Catherine Calvillo, direct cash recipient in LA and National Symposium panelist, said that young people like her have already imagined different paths, thought through what could go wrong, and figured out what stability could look like. What’s often missing isn’t a plan. It’s the support to make that plan possible.

10/17/2026

“How do we cultivate trust? By trusting.”

At the National Symposium, Sarah Solon of HR&A Partners spoke about what it takes to move government toward a direct cash model built on a simple principle: trusting young people to know what they need. Sarah, who has been instrumental in building support for direct cash expansion in Los Angeles, said that if we want trust-based programs, we have to show that trust works, and then keep proving, again and again, that better outcomes follow.

10/16/2026

“You have power,” says PSY’s Henry Love.

At the National Symposium, Henry talked about how he came to this work, and about a time when he stopped believing he had a future. Then someone told him, “You have so much to do.” The world needed him to show up. And that’s exactly what he’s doing.

Now he’s asking all of us to do the same: show up. Make the “angelic” and “good” trouble civil rights leaders Bayard Rustin and John Lewis called for. Wherever you are, push for change.
Because for many young people, this work is not abstract. It is life and death.