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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

Canadian Housing First Toolkit

This toolkit is based on the experience of the Canadian At Home/Chez Soi project that used the Pathways to Housing model of Housing First for homeless people with mental illness. While the toolkit has a mental health focus because it is based on the…

Tags: Canada-- housing first-- implementation-- toolkit

A Practice Framework for Delivering Services to Families in Supportive Housing

This document provides a framework for practice in family supportive housing settings. It is intended to be a capacity-building tool for those who are designing or already providing case management services for families living in supportive housing.…

Tags: family homelessness-- implementation-- PSH

Rapid Re-Housing Toolkit

This toolkit is intended to help current and potential Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) providers design, redesign, and operate effective programs that successfully use the core components of RRH to end homelessness for individuals and families.

Tags: implementation-- rapid re-housing-- toolkit

THIS is Housing First for Youth: Operations Manual

Part 2 of this guide takes the form of an operations manual, providing practical guidance for how to implement HF4Y. It touches upon a number of areas, including case management, supervision, community planning, and designing youth-focused service…

Tags: housing first-- implementation-- youth

Rapid re- housing: performance evaluation and improvement toolkit

This document provides details on using the performance benchmarks detailed in the Rapid Re-Housing Performance Benchmarks and Program Standards to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of rapid re-housing practice, both in individual programs and…

Tags: evaluation-- implementation-- rapid rehousing

Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program

In 2017, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to address the troubling problem of youth homelessness. The first round of awards was made to 10 diverse Continuums of…

Tags: implementation-- program evaluation-- rapid rehousing

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

Reducing Housing Barriers for People Involved in the Justice System: How to Assess the Landscape of Background Screening in Your Community

Tool designed to guide communities as they evaluate criminal background screenings in their community and assess the effect such screenings may have on justice system-involved individuals who are trying to get housing.

Tags: assessment-- criminal justice system-- housing barriers-- implementation-- interactive-- racial equity

Healthy Aging in Supportive Housing: Toolkit for service providers, developers, and property managers

Implementation guide for designing supportive housing programs that will serve seniors.

Tags: implementation-- older adults and seniors-- PSH

Rapid Re-housing in High-Cost Markets: What Do Programs Look Like?

Rapid re-housing has become a large component of the response to homelessness in communities across the country. To date, no studies have found anything conclusive on variations in outcomes resulting from differences in program implementation or…

Tags: Boston MA-- case study-- implementation-- Los Angeles CA-- rapid rehousing-- Seattle WA-- Washington DC

Engaging Youth Experiencing Homelessness

This publication describes practices and services that HCH agencies have found to be helpful in engaging youth experiencing homelessness. It is not a guide on street outreach for youth experiencing homelessness 1 . It is not evaluative or, strictly…

Tags: best practices-- implementation-- youth

Supportive Housing Integrated Models Toolkit

In creating and sharing the CSH Supportive Housing Integrated Models Toolkit CSH strives to:

Build the capacity of the affordable housing industry to create and operate high-quality, effective, and sustainable supportive housing units in a…

Tags: community integration-- funding-- implementation-- PSH-- scattered site-- single site-- supportive services

Homeless System Response: Planning a Housing Surge to Accelerate Rehousing Efforts in Response to COVID-19

As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and in response to COVID-19, many communities will receive significant new allocations of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds that can be used to quickly rehouse individuals…

Tags: implementation-- rapid rehousing

Homeless System Response: High Acuity: Transition from Short-term to Long-term Subsidy

Short document offering advice on how to help client who indicate they want to move from short term rent assistance/programs to long term rent assistance/programs

Tags: case management-- implementation-- PSH-- rapid rehousing

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

Core Elements of Effective Street Outreach to People Experiencing Homelessness

USICH checklist of the core elements of effective street outreach to people experiencing homelessness. Intended as a tool for providers or outreach staff.

Tags: implementation-- outreach

Outreach and Enrollment Quick guide: Promising Strategies for Engaging the Homeless Population

Drawn from key expert interviews with frontline staff, this quick guide covers: the definitions, principles, and roles of outreach; building networks and awareness through community outreach; the who, what, and where of client outreach; challenges…

Tags: healthcare-- implementation-- outreach

Covid-19 Homeless System Response: Housing-Focused Outreach

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A housing-focused outreach approach requires a systemic reimagining of the street outreach model to include changes in community-level and provider-level policies and practices. This resource covers:

The difference between housing-focused outreach…

Tags: additional resources-- housing first-- implementation-- outreach

The Current State of Youth Homelessness Approaches: Insights and Observations

The Current State of Youth Homelessness Approaches report outlines interventions, practices, and broader strategies to prevent, reduce, and end youth homelessness. The final product details ORS Impact’s approach to the project, select insights and…

Tags: implementation-- systems design-- youth

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