Jasmine champions the Council’s work to prevent and end youth and family homelessness, ensuring connection to national goals to end homelessness. Most recently, she led the development and implementation of criteria and benchmarks that provide communities with a blueprint for building a coordinated community response to prevent and end family and youth homelessness. Jasmine also spent more than 15 years strengthening state and local child welfare practices. For the District of Columbia’s child welfare agency, she led planning, policy, quality improvement, and resource development, spearheading development of housing and prevention resources. Jasmine holds an MSW from the University of Toronto.