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Housing First, Cultural Competence and Ethno-Racial Communities

The Toronto Housing First (At Home/Chez Soi) Ethno-Racial Intensive Case Management (HF ER ICM) project[1] delivers Housing First ensuring culturally based options for ethno-racial groups experiencing homelessness. We relied on the lessons learned…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- Canada-- housing first-- racial equity

Housing First and Access to Housing

CSH explanation of housing first and how to quickly move people into housing.

Tags: definition-- housing first-- implementation

The housing first model (HFM) fidelity index: designing and testing a tool for measuring integrity of housing programs that serve active substance users

The Housing First Model (HFM) is an approach to serving formerly homeless individuals with dually diagnosed mental health and substance use disorders regardless of their choice to use substances or engage in other risky behaviors. The model has been…

Tags: housing first-- implementation-- model fidelity-- open access-- pathways to housing-- scholarly

How to House the Homeless

Collection of essays/articles about homelessness; range of topics including preventing homelessness, serving people experiencing homelessness, reforms and policy.

Tags: book-- cost-- housing first-- policy-- scholarly

Housing First

Homeless Hub definition of housing first.

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At Home in Winnipeg: Localizing Housing First as a Culturally Responsive Approach to Understanding and Addressing Urban Indigenous Homelessness

Long narrative explaining how the Winnipeg site of the At Home/Chez Soi research trial was operationalized by/with/for urban Indigenous Canadians experiencing homelessness.

Tags: at home/chez soi-- Canada-- culturally specific services-- housing first-- native american/alaska native/indigenous

Housing First programs in congregate-site facilities: can one size fit all?

The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken…

Tags: australia-- housing first-- model fidelity-- pathways to housing-- PSH-- scholarly-- single-site

A Randomized Trial Examining Housing First in Congregate and Scattered Site Formats

Objective: No previous experimental trials have investigated Housing First (HF) in both scattered site (SHF) and congregate (CHF) formats. We hypothesized that CHF and SHF would be associated with a greater percentage of time stably housed as well as…

Tags: housing first-- open access-- randomized control trial-- scattered-site-- scholarly-- single-site

What is Housing First?

Community solutions definition of Housing First.

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Data Visualization: The Evidence on Housing First

Visualization and links to external studies that provide evidence for and against housing first.

Tags: advocacy-- housing first-- literature review

Understanding housing first

Housed people aren't homeless. Learn how to apply effective strategies for housing individuals and families. Your goals in this course will be to learn how to learn how to implement a Housing First approach in your own work and in your program or…

Tags: housing first-- paywall-- training-- video

The Truth About Housing First

Call to action around fighting for housing first, with accompanying myth-busting/reminders that serve as a more advanced and nuanced description of what Housing First is.

Tags: advocacy-- definition-- housing first

Housing First Fact Sheet

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NAEH Factsheet on housing first.

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Performance Benchmarks and Program Standards

This document provides performance benchmarks for RRH programs, as well as a more detailed understanding of what RRH programs should look like. The performance benchmarks in the document are based current promising practices identified by by the…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- Canada-- evaluation-- housing first-- implementation-- model fidelity

The Evidence is Clear: Housing First Works

Fact sheet, provides easily digestible evidence of the benefits of housing first over treatment first or abstinence programs, across a variety of indicators.

Tags: advocacy-- housing first

Housing First: Q&A

NLIHC factsheet about housing first, includes a brief definition and answers to common questions.

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The Ambiguities, Limits and Risks of Housing First from a European Perspective

There is strong evidence that the Pathways Housing First model can move homeless people with sustained experiences of living rough, with problematic drug and alcohol use, and with severe mental illness straight into ordinary housing, and successfully…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- pathways to housing-- scholarly

Pathways Housing First Institute

Website for the Pathways to Housing non-profit, who originally developed the Housing First model.

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- pathways to housing

Housing First and Single-Site Housing

In 2002, the United States embraced the Housing First approach, which led to the widespread adoption of this approach in cities across the nation. This resulted in programmatic variations of Housing First and calls for clarity about the Housing First…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- open access-- qualitative-- scattered-site-- scholarly-- single-site

Strategies to Balance Fidelity to Housing First Principles with Local Realities: Lessons from a Large Urban Centre

The importance of program implementation in achieving desired outcomes is well- documented, but there remains a need for concrete guidance on how to achieve fidelity to evidence- based models within dynamic local contexts. Housing First (HF), an…

Tags: at home/chez soi-- Canada-- housing first-- implementation-- model fidelity-- program evaluation-- scholarly

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