HEY will engage current and former foster youth and the public, private, and non-profit sectors to:

• Strengthen the capacity of San Francisco's foster care system to successfully transition youth to adult independence,
• Increase housing options and services, and
• Develop mechanisms for integrating and coordinating services

Through advocacy, organizing, outreach, education, and youth empowerment strategies.

To increase housing, educational, health, emancipation preparation, and job opportunities for emancipated youth, HEY:

• Convenes expertise, experience, and knowledge to promote and facilitate housing options and development for former foster youth.

• Promotes the Guardian Scholars model at Bay Area colleges and universities.

• Increases service coordination and integration among service and housing providers working with former foster youth.

• Increases stakeholders' knowledge of the political and budgetary climate as they relate to current and former foster youth.

• Facilitates and promotes youth/young adult leadership through direct youth/young adult participation in setting and implementing the priorities of the collaborative.

To increase public awareness of the issues facing youth leaving the foster care system, HEY:

• Increases public awareness of the issues facing youth leaving the foster care system.