Prevention-focused narrative intervention
Belonging is not a feeling.It is a structural condition.
Transitions to Moments that Matter helps families, providers, and youth-serving systems recognize the everyday practices that push transgender and gender-diverse youth away from support, and act before housing instability escalates.
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Start where you are.
Every audience has a different first step. Choose the door that fits, and we'll guide you to the right stories, tools, and resources.
The Ecosystem
One intervention. Three connected tools.
Storytelling alone does not prevent homelessness. Narrative, assessment, and resource navigation work together so recognition becomes practice change.
Narrative Mini-Series
Episode 1: The Exhale (Work in Progress), a story that makes everyday institutional harm visible through the ordinary moments where a young person decides whether to stay connected.
Learn moreDYUR Toolkit
A rights-based organizational and youth experience assessment that translates belonging into measurable practice.
Learn moreQ-Nife Family Resources
A living resource guide that helps youth, families, providers, and allies locate affirming support before crisis deepens.
Learn moreDesign Labs and Digital Archive
A consent-governed space for stakeholder reflections, prototype testing responses, and community contributions. Every submission is role-attributed, ethically governed, and preserved as part of the ongoing record of this intervention's development and reach.
Learn moreWhy this matters
The conditions that lead to housing instability begin long before a young person loses a bed.
1 in 3
LGBTQ+ young people who experience homelessness in the U.S. identify as transgender or nonbinary.
73%
of trans youth report mistreatment by a provider, school, or service they turned to for help.
Earlier
engagement with affirming support is consistently linked to greater housing stability.
Sources: The Trevor Project (2024 National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People); True Colors United; Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law.
How the product creates change
From recognition to prevention-oriented action.
Stories help viewers recognize exclusion. Tools help families and organizations identify what to change. Resources help people act earlier. Design labs keep the product accountable. Dissemination helps it reach people before disengagement becomes homelessness.
Inputs
- Trans youth lived experience
- Stakeholder interviews & surveys
- Community design team
- CHYP partnership
- Narrative production resources
- Q-Nife & DYUR tools
Activities
- Stakeholder design labs
- Episode 1: The Exhale (Work in Progress) and short-form clips
- Companion tool development
- Dissemination through You Count Data Hub
- Consent-governed digital archive
Outputs
- Episode 1: The Exhale (Work in Progress) + short-form clips
- Q-Nife Family Resources
- DYUR self-assessment
- CHYP landing page
- Post-viewing surveys & analytics
- Practice-change documentation
Outcomes
- Recognition of institutional exclusion
- Adoption of affirming practices
- Organizational procedural changes
- Reduced service avoidance
- Earlier engagement with support
- Strengthened housing-stability conditions
Bring belonging into the practices that decide whether a young person stays connected.
Start the DYUR self-assessment, or reach out with a question, idea, partnership interest, media request, or collaboration opportunity.