Urban Street Angels in downtown San Diego has worked to end youth homelessness from its Fifth Avenue headquarters since 2012, providing emergency shelter, supportive housing for over 100 transition-age youth ages 18 through 25, and job-skills training through a social-enterprise model. The organization's 30-bed independent-living home on Fifth Avenue houses both male and female residents with serious mental illness, pairing each youth with individualized case management, therapy linkages through Sharp Mesa Vista, and substance-abuse treatment — a wraparound approach that parallels the family-stability services offered by YWCA San Diego County. A $305,400 Homeless Emergency Aid Program contract with the San Diego Housing Commission funds 19 additional shelter beds and a hotel-voucher program for overflow cases. In 2025, employment programs helped more than 200 youth transition off the streets, anchored by the Padres 5-Tool Trade Academy — a partnership with the San Diego Padres Foundation and Xander Bogaerts that offers 22 trade pathways through 11 partnering schools. Street-outreach teams coordinate with the Regional Taskforce on Homelessness and organizations such as Downtown San Diego Partnership Clean & Safe to identify and engage unsheltered youth before they age into chronic homelessness. The organization's most intensive track is its long-term supportive housing program, which provides up to two years of structured residency combining mental-health counseling, employment placement, and mentorship to build the stability required for permanent independent living.