Beyond the Tunnel Problem: Addressing Cross-Cutting Issues that Impact Vulnerable Youth

July 1, 2005 This report was authored by Timothy Ross and Joel Miller and released by the Youth Transitions Funders Group in July 2005. The first in a series of papers designed to inform practitioners, officials, funders, and advocates, this paper focuses on the typology of cross-cutting issues. It explains the following cross-cutting dynamics that have a negative impact on the well-being of vulnerable youth, including: the tunnel problem in which a youth's entry point into government systems will tend to determine the services they receive, rather than their underlying problems; the lack of information flow . . .