125 - How COVID-19 is Impacting Baltimore Youths Experiencing Homelessness

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Over 300 homeless youths ages 14-25 come to the Youth Empowered Society (YES) Drop-in Center every year. They come for food, clothing, mental health counseling, job training, housing and rental assistance, and many more basic services. But COVID-19 is presenting even greater challenges for clients and has forced the staff to rethink service delivery models. YES executive director Blair Franklin talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about these challenges, innovations in care provision, dealing with staff exhaustion and burnout, and the added impacts of racial violence and protests on clients and staff. More about YES available at: http://yesdropincenter.org

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins
0:11.6	Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:13.6	I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,
0:18.8	and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
0:21.9	Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day
0:27.3	through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public
0:32.5	health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question
0:40.7	at jhhhu.edu.
0:43.1	That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:49.4	Today, I speak to Blair Franklin, the executive director of Yes, the Youth Empowered Society,
0:56.8	a nonprofit organization in Baltimore that runs a drop-in center and much more for young people experiencing homelessness.
1:05.0	Yes is an organization that spends its time with youth who few acknowledge, let alone help.
1:11.3	We talk about what the COVID pandemic and protests against racism have meant for the community
1:16.2	of young people experiencing homelessness and those who care about them.
1:20.5	Let's listen.
1:21.5	Blair, thank you so much for joining me.
1:25.0	Could you start by telling us a little bit about what the Youth Empowered Society is?
1:29.3	Yeah, yeah, sure. So yeah, thank you so much for having me. My name is Blair,
1:34.3	executive director of the Youth Empowered Society or the Yes, Drop-in Center, or a drop-in center
1:38.3	for young people who are experiencing homelessness between the ages of 14 to 25.
1:43.3	We were actually started by young people
1:44.7	themselves who saw the need for a safe space to exist in the city to get access to resources
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