Young People to the Front

The Young People to the Front Podcast (YP2FPod) aims to elevate youth voices and increase awareness about youth homelessness in LA. By exploring the causes and LA-specific issues that intersect with youth homelessness, as well as highlighting actions that can be taken to solve it, we hope to build a broad support network and deepen our connection to the community.

Young People to the Front is a government podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 54 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Young People to the Front, a government show with 54 episodes published.

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  Episode #54

  Sherrie Bradford on Foster Care, Finding Her Voice, and Building Spaces That Actually Heal

  Mar 6, 20261h 2mS0

  <p>Episode Notes:</p> <p>Sherry Bradford is a foster youth advocate, Prevention Early Intervention Training Coordinator at CASA of Los Angeles, educational consultant with Alliance for Children's Rights, and MSW candidate at Cal State Long Beach. In this episode, she sits down with Tonny to talk about her journey through the foster care system, how she got into advocacy, and her role in creating the TA(Y)LK To Me Podcast.</p> <p>Topics covered:</p> Growing up in foster care and experiencing homelessness after aging out at 21 Navigating college as a former foster youth and the resources that...

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  Episode #53

  Myriah on Foster Care, Knowing Your Rights, and Reclaiming Your Story

  Mar 4, 202645 minS0

  <p>Episode Notes:</p> <p>Myriah didn't set out to become an advocate. After emancipating from foster care, she started sharing her story and the work just took off from there. From being featured in the LA Times, to representing her community as Miss Compton Princess, to serving four years on the LA County Board of Supervisors Youth Commission, she's spent years making sure young people in care are in the room before decisions get made, not after.</p> <p>In this episode, she talks about what it actually looks like to center youth voice in institutional spaces, the difference...

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  Episode #52

  Evelyn & Christopher on Youth Homelessness, Exploitation in Advocacy, and Showing Up As Your Whole Self

  Mar 2, 202652 minS0

  <p>Episode Notes:</p> <p>What happens when the people closest to the problem are the last ones supported by the system?</p> <p>In this episode, we sit down with Evelyn Karina Rodriguez (they/them) — artist, activist, researcher, and founder of 404 Found — and Christopher Hendricks, youth system strategist and MSW candidate at Cal State Fullerton. Both are rooted in Southern California, and both found their way to youth homelessness advocacy not by choice, but because the work found them.</p> <p>Together, they get honest about what it actually looks like to advocate from lived experience — the code-switching required for su...

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  Episode #51

  Fighting for Functional Zero: Youth Homelessness and the Future of HHAP

  Dec 18, 20251h 14mS0

  <p>About JBAY and the Guests</p>What JBAY does as an advocacy organization (not direct service)JBAY's work on state policy and budget investments for youth homelessnessHow both Simone and Brandon started in direct service before moving to advocacy<p>What is HHAP?</p>Flexible local aid administered by California Department of Housing and Community DevelopmentFunding goes to 58 counties, 14 largest cities, and 44 homeless Continuums of Care (CoCs)The "secret sauce": 10% youth set-aside policy requiring minimum funding for youth servicesWhy young people don't get served without designated funding requirements<p>The Major Success: 24% Reduction in Youth Homelessness</p>Youth homelessness...

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  Episode #50

  Youth Homelessness and Kink Community: An Unexpected Path to Belonging with Cutter Ray Palacios

  Dec 11, 20251h 15mS0

  <p>Episode Notes</p><p>This week on Young People at the Front, Tonny, Robin, and Fatine open with banter about meeting your younger self. </p><p>Then, Tonny sits down with Cutter Palacios, an actor, intimacy coordinator, and mental health educator whose story rewrites what survival, resilience, and belonging can look like. Cutter moved to Los Angeles at 19 with $500, a dream, and nowhere to go. For two and a half years, they lived out of a compact SUV — sleeping beside a fire station in Burbank, brushing their teeth at Starbucks, and chasing auditions between shifts at Canter’s Deli. What...

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