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A Home for Homeless Youth

Collaborating with youth who experience homelessness to design an Ithaca emergency youth shelter that meets their needs

Significant numbers of youth in Tompkins County experience unstable, inadequate housing and are often homeless, yet few use emergency shelters. Tompkins Community Action is creating additional emergency housing to serve homeless youth and wants to learn how best to design this new facility so that it appeals to the youth and meets their needs. A team of undergraduate research assistants and faculty are conducting focus groups with homeless youth to better understand this information. Students will then use the focus group data to develop design guidelines and working drawings of interior details that will support the design and building of the new youth shelter.

Grant Category: Other

Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Children, Youth, Seniors and Families

The Team

  • Jane Powers, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research

    College of Human Ecology

  • Gary Evans, Department of Design and Environmental Analysis

    College of Human Ecology

  • Community partner:  Tompkins Community Action, Inc.
  • Community partner:  The Learning Web

In the News

NOVEMBER 20, 2018 
Engaged Cornell grants support BCTR youth research
– Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research website


Engaged Opportunity Grants

Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.

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