Yeah, I'll go ahead and talk about our work groups. I did also see Chelsea in the chat say that she loved the visuals, and that is all Meredith, who is huge support to this committee, especially with making slides and things like that. So much. Thanks there. But the work groups that Erica mentioned really quickly, we have three separate ones, and we did decide on these as a larger group. And these were a direct cash transfer group, which is focused on facilitating a youth driven direct cash transfer project design process and ultimately bringing direct cash transfer programming to our COC. The second one is our evaluation work group, and they're working on conducting an evaluation of our newly funded youth homelessness demonstration project projects to learn how we might improve our systems response to youth homelessness. And then finally, the third group is our resource and partnerships group, which is focused on inventorying and publicizing existing youth resources and creating new partnerships to better serve the youth in our All right, so we're just going to go really quickly into what each of those work groups is doing more specifically. So direct cash transfers. What we've done in that space is we've started that initial community engagement, which is at about a year now. Last May, we have re engaged with point source youth, and we're defining our collaboration terms with them, all that kind of stuff. And just like some basic early planning, which kind of leads into that ongoing piece where we're working on CO designing sessions for youth and provider feedback on how best to implement DCT and the COC. Those will begin later this month. In earnest, we're doing some initial data analysis and indo info gathering, and then we are, you know, kind of doing that funder and stakeholder engagement. We do have challenges for all of these, and we just want to be honest about those, right? So challenges for direct cash transfers, the current funding environment, I'm sure you've all heard of it, and then, just to be frank, right? Adultism that we're running into in not just even the COC space, but a lot of spaces, that's something that we have to educate and support on because a lot of people are wary, as it says, of giving cash directly to young people to let them resolve their own homelessness. So that just takes a lot of education work, especially with providers and adults in the space for evaluation. What's done is that we partnered with Wayne State to form an evaluation team and defined a lot of evaluation criteria. The Board approved that during the January meeting. So you know, a lot of you probably saw that then, big shout out to Lydia Goddard with a lot of this work, I know that there's other people who regularly go, but her and the Wayne State team have done a lot around this ongoing for the evaluation work group, securing baseline data from HMIs, you know, the project, period performance, and then drafting qualitative interview questions and challenges, right? And the Wayne State Group is new to HMIs data, which is, you know, famously so easy to understand, and no one ever has any difficulty, right? But no, they're new to that space, and it is right. So they're learning we have limited yht data, right? There's only, I believe, four providers doing that work, so just what we have in scope is limited, and then we anticipate that client participation in interviews, you know, will be a challenge that we run into as we continue to do evaluation. And then finally, our third work group is the resources and partnerships group. So what is done? Resource Sharing within the community, the Committee on youth homelessness, space itself. We've done a ton of that, and we have worked with cast from community home sports on the needs management map, which I assume most people in the space are probably familiar with. So you know, we've kind of been Collaborative on that ongoing is sorting out processes for continued inventory and publishing resources, identifying partnerships, keeping. Pursue and considering agency to agency partnerships more formally. Challenges with this group, as you can probably imagine from a name like resource and partnerships, we have to define the focus a little better. We're kind of working on that, and we want to know, like, what does it mean to partner with the COC or with the committee on youth homelessness? Are those students different? Are they the same, you know, etc, and then even envisioning system level partnerships, because we are all really siloed, so, you know, just some honesty there. But yeah, oh, Meredith shared the needs management app in the chat. Thank you. If anyone hasn't seen it before, please, please, please click on it. It's really awesome. You and then our final slide here is just, we'd love to hear from you. I love all the questions that Meredith put on the slide, thoughts, questions, comments, concerns, ideas, praise, you could stay there for a while. Praise, encouragement, words of caution, right? Maybe you're like, oh boy, they're embarking on something we tried to do four years ago. They have no idea what a mess it might be. You know. Let us know if any of these things sound familiar and, you know, pitfalls, right, things like that. And also, as was mentioned beforehand, we, we are one of the boards that are doing the same thing, Erica. We are one of the committees that has a vacancy for our committee from the COC board. So we, we'd love, love, love to have a board member, you know, take that vacancy up right now. Tammy black comes and is our current COC board representative, representative. But, yeah, we have that one vacancy. So if any of this sounds interesting to you, generally or as a board member, and you would like to join our meetings. We meet the second Wednesday of every month, and I believe our next meeting is in person. I don't know why I said I believe I know it's in
