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Standards for Quality Supportive Housing Guide

28 pg guidebook that attempts to describe standards for quality supportive housing across four components: project planning and administration, property and housing management, supportive housing services, community.

Tags: implementation-- PSH-- supportive housing

Multnomah County FUSE Report

FUSE is a signature initiative of CSH that helps communities break the cycle of homelessness and crises among individuals with complex medical and behavioral health challenges. These individuals have frequent touches with emergency departments,…

Tags: cross-system collaboration-- FUSE-- Multnomah County OR-- PSH

Health Access and SDOH: Mobile Outreach for the Unsheltered Homeless

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated the long-running housing crisis in the United States. The rise in unsheltered homeless encampments in many communities require new partnerships and expanded services in non-traditional settings to reach…

Tags: healthcare-- outreach-- video

Community + Systems Partnerships: Using Data to Co-Design Strategies that Advance Racial Equity

This webinar provides insights, practical approaches, and tools for authentic community engagement that amplifies community voice and leans into the wisdom of lived experience to drive equitable systems change.

Tags: data-- racial equity-- training

Supportive Housing Training Center

The Supportive Housing Training Center offers practical, interactive training solutions that empower people to learn about, build, & provide high-quality supportive housing in their community.

Tags: housing first-- interactive-- PSH-- training-- video

Housing First and Access to Housing

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

Tags: definition-- housing first-- implementation

Scattered-Site Supportive Housing: Connecting Tenants with Rental Units

Brief guide for helping tenants search for housing (intended for scattered-site PSH operators, case managers).

Tags: implementation-- PSH-- scattered site

Supportive Housing 101: What is Supportive Housing?

CSH definition of supportive housing.

Tags: PSH: definition

Supportive Housing Quality Toolkit

The toolkit contains tools, templates and project profiles designed for anyone interested or involved in creating or maintaining quality supportive housing. The generous support of the Metlife Foundation made the development of the Supportive Housing…

Tags: additional resources-- implementation-- PSH-- supportive housing

Indicators of a Racially Equitable Homeless Response System

List and brief explanation of Built for Zero's four indicators of a racially equitable homelessness response system.

Tags: racial equity-- systems design

Guidance for journalists on how to cover the Point-in-Time count

The annual Point-in-Time count of homelessness is an event that invites coverage from local outlets. It is an opportunity to report on the state of homelessness in a community and efforts to address it. This guidance is intended to equip journalists…

Tags: advocacy-- journalism-- point-in-time count

Key Homelessness Definitions

List of definitions for basic terms in homelessness response system.

Tags: definition

By-Name Data

Definition and argument in favor of using by-name data

Tags: by-name list-- definition

Understanding Low-Income Hispanic Housing Challenges and the Use of Housing and Homelessness Assistance

Many Hispanic households in the United States face poor housing conditions, high rent burdens, overcrowding, and—in some communities—high rates of homelessness. At the same time, awareness is growing that Hispanics are often underrepresented in…

Tags: case study-- emergency shelter-- latina/e/o-- open access-- Philadelphia PA-- racial disparities-- scholarly-- shelter utilization

Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives Experiencing Homelessness in California: Strategies for Addressing Housing Insecurities and Substance Use Disorder

The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) funded the USC Keck School of Medicine, a Tribal Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Project partner, to lead a unique opportunity to conduct a statewide needs assessment among urban and rural…

Tags: California-- culturally specific care-- healthcare-- implementation-- native american/alaska native/indigenous-- substance use disorder

Homeless services terminology

Short glossary. Does not include all possible terms.

Tags: definition-- HMIS

One Seattle homelessness action plan

The City of Seattle first declared a State of Emergency for homelessness in 2015. Despite intentional efforts and significant spending, the emergency has only grown worse since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. After years of effort and…

Tags: dashboard-- data-- housing first-- peer city-- planning-- Seattle WA

Safe Rest Villages Program Overview

Overview of Safe Rest Villages including what they are, why they are needed, how they work, where they are located, who is responsible for what, and how they are funded.

Tags: Portland OR-- Safe Rest Village-- tiny house-- village shelter

Trauma-informed design for permanent supportive housing: four case studies from Seattle and Denver

Single-site, permanent supportive housing (PSH) buildings with a Housing First approach have become an increasingly common solution to homelessness in many North American cities. Because people who have experienced long-term homelessness are also…

Tags: Denver CO-- housing first-- peer cities-- PSH-- scholarly-- Seattle WA-- single-site-- trauma-informed care-- trauma-informed design

Report on the recommendations of the systems change collaborative to improve the health of people experiencing homelessness

The purpose of the group was to develop system-level recommendations to improve health for Chicagoans experiencing homelessness in partnership with cross-sector experts and people with lived expertise, focusing on recommendations which CDPH and City…

Tags: Chicago IL-- health-- healthcare

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