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Federal partners have agreed to establish 2017 as the baseline year for measuring progress in ending youth homelessness in the context of the Point-in-Time (PIT) count. This means that as we measure national and local progress on ending youth homelessness with the PIT count, 2017 will be used as the initial comparison year. To help communities prepare for the PIT count, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) is hosting a webinar on promising practices for counting youth including considerations from federal agencies and recently published resources, early lessons learned from the national Voices of Youth Count initiative led by Chapin Hall, highlights from a local youth count, and recommendations on integrating efforts to count youth as part of the broader PIT count. This webinar will be on Monday, November 21, 2016 at 2:00 PM EDT . Register for the webinar .

Together, we are ending homelessness. Continuing to Drive Progress in Ending Homelessness Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released its annual Point-in-Time count results, reporting steady reductions in homelessness between 2010 and 2016. We'll provide a more detailed analysis of this data in the weeks ahead, but in the meantime, we encourage everyone to:   Read the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, Part I . Read HUD's press release about the Point-in-Time data .     Remarks from Executive Director Matthew Doherty on the 2016 Point-in-Time Count Data At the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness we find this data, on the whole, very encouragi

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Tonight: Facing Addiction in America Television Special Listen: Facing Addiction in America is a televised broadcast of the national summit held on November 17, 2016, in Los Angeles to help launch a national conversation about addiction as a public health epidemic. It is co-hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky and MTV News senior correspondent Ana Marie Cox, and features appearances by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Joe Walsh, award-winning R&B artist Mario, Detroit rapper Royce Da 5'9", comedian Gary Owen, actor Danny Trejo, professional skateboarder Brandon Novak, bar consultant and Spike TV personality Jon Taffer, activist and Logo TV alum Brandon Kneefel, U.S. Army veteran and author Shilo Harris, as well as leading advocates and Americans from across the country who have been impacted by addiction. We hope you will be able to tune in tonight, Friday, November 18, f