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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

Covid-19 Homeless System Response: Advancing Racial Equity through Assessments and Prioritization

Brief with suggestions on how to reduce racial bias in coordinated entry systems and other assessment tools.

Tags: coordinated entry-- data-- racial equity

Covid-19 Homeless System Response: Increasing Equity in the Homeless Response System Through
Expanding Procurement

Brief discussing the importance of soliciting grant proposals from a variety or organizations who are trusted by and serve BIPOC communtiies. Includes suggestions for how to expland the providers one contracts with

Tags: funding-- providers-- racial equity

Nimby Assessment

This training provides real world case studies showing how NIMBYism (Not In My Backyard) affects supportive housing projects and how organizations can respond to NIMBYism in their communities.

Tags: assessment-- case study-- implementation-- NIMBYism-- PSH

Lessons Learned from Outreach Workers

In this video, outreach workers, Michael Eckhart of Nation's Finest and Mitch Watson of Hunger & Homeless Coalition of Collier County, share their approach to engaging unsheltered individuals experiencing homelessness.

Grounded in people-first…

Tags: 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

Covid-19 Homeless System Response: Evidence-based Service Delivery

Brief fact sheet that explains five evidence-based practices commonly used in homeless response: housing first, critical time intervention,assertive community treatment, motivational interviewing, and intensive case management.

Tags: case management-- definition-- supportive services

CoC Webinar Series: Building Effective Partnerships with CJ System Stakeholders

This webinar honors Second Chance Month with a presentation and discussion on building partnerships between Continuums of Care (CoCs) and criminal justice (CJ) system stakeholders. It features a panel of system leaders, people with lived experience,…

Tags: criminal justice system-- cross-system collaboration

Homeless System Response: Qualitative Data 101

Brief definition/ introduction to qualitative data. Helpful for those who are totally new to research.

Tags: data-- definition-- qualitative data

Upstream Kelowna Outcomes Brief

Upstream Kelowna is a school-based intervention that identifies and supports school-aged youth at risk of homelessness and school disengagement through early assessment and targeted services. This outcomes brief demonstrates the critical need for…

Tags: children-- cross-system collaboration-- education system-- homelessness prevention-- youth

Racial Inequity and Homelessness: Findings from the SPARC Study

This study examines racial inequities and homelessness in the United States through mixed methods research in eight communities. We compare the race and ethnicity of those experiencing homelessness to the general population and to people in poverty,…

Tags: mixed methods-- open access-- racial disparities-- scholarly-- SPARC

Los Angeles is using AI to predict who might become homeless and help before they do

OPB article describing a new program Los Angeles is piloting to try to identify individuals who are at high risk of becoming homeless and prevent them from becoming homelessness, using machine learning and inputs from other county datasets.

Tags: AI-- data-- homelessness prevention-- Los Angeles CA

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

Two Ways of Looking at It: How We Evaluate Homelessness Numbers

Accessible explanation of the difference between counts and percentages, how to interpret each, and when it's beneficial to use each one.

Tags: data-- definition

Calculating Change: Future Directions for Homelessness Data Use and Reporting

List of ideas from the national alliance to end homelessness on how homelessness data collection could be improved and what other information could be gained through changes to data collection.

Tags: data-- HMIS

Working with Unsheltered People: Findings from the Alliance’s Workforce Survey

During the summer of 2023, the Alliance surveyed the nation’s homeless services workforce. The online questions were answered by 5,044 people in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The results highlighted mission-driven workers in challenging…

Tags: outreach-- workers

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

A Place to Be: Alternatives to Unsanctioned Homeless Encampments

The breadth and depth of this report, while necessary for a meaningful analysis of the alternatives to Oakland’s unsanctioned encampment procedure, likely poses a challenge for those who are interested in a brief overview of the issue. The report is…

Tags: encampments-- housing first-- Oakland CA-- policy-- unsheltered homelessness

What is Housing First?

Community solutions definition of Housing First.

Tags: definition-- housing first

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