Bill Motsavage, our Executive Vice President, presented two seminars at the National Conference on Ending Homelessness in Washington, DC on July 16-17 2015. The first presentation, titled “Making Rapid Re-Housing Work for Youth,” can be viewed here: B. Motsavage NAEH 7.16.15 The second presentation, titled “Working with System Involved Youth,” can be viewed here: B. Motsavage NAEH 7.17.15

Bill Motsavage, our Executive Vice President, presented a webinar titled “Strategies to Better Serve and End Youth Homelessness” for the Homeless Advocacy Project on September 25,2015. Click here to see the slides: B. Motsavage HAP Webinar 9-21-15.

Valley Youth House is named in a lawsuit against Governor Wolf for the nearly 80-day budget impasse. Along with 110 other organizations, Valley Youth House is part of Pennsylvania Council of Children, Youth and Family Services. All of these organizations are impacted by the lack of budget; state and federal contracts that fund foster care, child […]

The Morning Call’s “Help for Families” column is a collaboration between The Morning Call and parenting professionals brought together by Valley Youth House’s Project Child.   QUESTION: 14-year-old son told me that his best friend makes the comment, “Hashtag, I’d rape that,” every time he sees a pretty girl. I am upset for my son to […]

September’s Golden Houseter award winner, an honor that is awarded by staff in our Philadelphia office to a young person who has gone above and beyond in one of our housing programs that month, is Papa! Despite personal obstacles and challenges, Papa is a motivated and determined young man.  Papa has been able to obtain […]

Valley Youth House’s Art @ and The Monkey & The Elephant are proud to present All of the Feels, a youth art exhibit. The exhibit will be on display through September 30 at M&E Cafe. G Philly named it one of the 25 things to do in Philly in September. All of the Feels embodies what […]

Sleep Out for Homelessness will be held at Neffs Union UCC from Saturday,September 26th at 6pm to Sunday Sept 27th at 11am. This fundraiser, organized by teens from the Penn Northeast Conference (PNEC) of the United Church of Christ, supports the Synergy Project.

Thank you to our youngest Backpack Challenge supporters Patrick, Aela, Tristan, and Lukas! They made over $130 at their lemonade stand for the Backpack Challenge, and also collected a huge basket of school supplies. We are SO grateful to Patrick, Aela, Tristan and Lukas for their hard work to ensure that foster care youth in […]

This week we are featuring our most recent Golden Houseter award winner, an honor that is awarded by staff in our Philadelphia office to a young person who has gone above and beyond in one of our housing programs that month. Congratulations, Foster, on being the most recent Golden Houseter! Foster has been a reliable […]

Metro Philadelphia featured the Youth Count on the front page of the paper on August 24! A new app, designed by Grassroots Unwired, debuted at the quarterly count held August 19 and is helping to more accurately survey youth experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia. We’re so excited to be able to share the great work done by our […]