Star House: Services, Training, Advocacy and Research on Behalf of Homeless Youth
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Star House integrates research, teaching and community service to provide central Ohio's 1,200-1,500 youth experiencing homelessness with a safe respite from the streets and connections to a chance for productive lives. Leaders and staff partner with the broader Ohio State and central Ohio community to facilitate services to this vulnerable, underserved population.
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IMPACT. 1: Research: Since 2004, $20.6 million in federal research funding has been awarded with the goal to identify strategies for ending homelessness and its associated problems among youth and mothers with children in their care. -- 2. Teaching: Star House serves as an internship site for the colleges of Social Work and EHE. High-achieving underrepresented undergraduate students from around the country receive a summer research experience through NIDA. -- 3. Service: Consistent with the mission of a land-grant university, Star House not only translates research to serve the community, but also provides significant education to the community around issues of homelessness.
OSU PARTNERS: Faculty partners are represented by the colleges of Education and Human Ecology, Social Work, Nursing, as well as Nationwide Children's Hospital. Star House also partners with Ohio State's Facilities and Operations Department, and the Morrill Scholars Learning Center.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio; Mount Carmel; Nationwide Children's Hospital; Columbus Public Health; Moms2B; Gracehaven; Salvation Army; Safelink Wireless; Flex High School; Academy for Urban Scholars; Family and Children First; Maryhaven; Mid-Ohio Food Bank; Ohio Benefit Bank; Northwest Counseling (Syntero); Youth Empowerment Program; ...and many more
PRIMARY CONTACT: Natasha Slesnick (slesnick.5@osu.edu)