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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

Transforming Organizational Practice With a Racial Equity Lens

Brief overview of how one homelessness services provider sought to advance racial equity in their organization.

Tags: organization-- racial equity-- systems design

Toward Safety: Understanding Intimate Partner Violence and Homelessness

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), defined as violence or abuse by a current or former intimate partner, increases the risk of homelessness for survivors, particularly those with limited financial resources. To better understand the experiences of…

Tags: California-- CASPEH-- domestic violence

Toward Equity: Understanding Black Californian's Experience of Homelessness

While 7% of California’s population identifies as Black, Black Californians represent more than a quarter of the state’s homeless population. The overrepresentation of Black communities in the homeless population arises from centuries of anti-Black…

Tags: black/african american-- California-- CASPEH-- racial equity

Toward Dignity: Understanding Older Adult Homelessness

The homeless population is aging; in the past few decades, the proportion of adults experiencing homelessness who are 50 and older has risen faster than other groups. This trend is expected to continue, with the proportion of people age 65 and older…

Tags: California-- CASPEH-- older adults and seniors

Toolkit of Best Practices to Advance Racial Equity

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (California HCD) Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) Guidebook of Best Practices to Advance Equity aims to remove barriers for subrecipients and sub-subrecipients when implementing equitable…

Tags: racial equity-- toolkit

Tip Sheet: Strategies for Building Client Engagement: Practical Advice from Frontline Homeless Service Providers

This tip sheet is drawn from the National Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Council’s Outreach & Enrollment Quick Guide 1 , which provides practical strategies for outreach and enrollment activities. One foundational element of outreach and…

Tags: healthcare-- outreach

THIS is Housing First for Youth: Program Model Guide

This new version of THIS is Housing First has been broken into two sections. Part 1 provides an overview of the research, principles, and philosophy underpinning the HF4Y model. It concludes with a series of case examples of successful local…

Tags: housing first-- model fidelity-- youth

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

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

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

The Ghosts of Housing Discrimination Reach Beyond Redlining

explanation of historic and current racism in housing.

Tags: history-- housing discrimination-- racial disparities-- systems design

The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes

Each year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) measures the availability of rental housing affordable to extremely low-income households and other income groups. Based on the American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (ACS…

Tags: affordable housing-- data

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

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

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

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