Ma'at Youth Leadership at Homeless Children's Network: Findings from July 2024 to June 2025

The purpose of this report is to evaluate Ma’at Youth Leadership at the Homeless Children’s Network (HCN). Through partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) over the past five years, Ma’at Youth Leadership has supported highly vulnerable, low-income/very low-income youth and adolescents who are at risk of not making successful transitions into adulthood within San Francisco, with a focus on Black/African American youth and youth in the Bayview and Western Addition neighborhoods.

Together, with HCN, Indigo Cultural Center evaluated the impact of Ma'at Youth Leadership this year. In line with a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) rooted in racial equity, HCN’s staff, including the HCN Ma’at Youth Leadership team, collaborated with the Indigo Cultural Center team on evaluation design, survey development, data collection, and the interpretation of quantitative and qualitative findings.

Learn more about Homeless Children's Network at: hcnkids.org/impact

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