Housing First has emerged as an effective and humane approach to addressing homelessness. In spite of the strength of the evidence, questions remain regarding the applicability of Housing First to sub-populations, including youth. The proposed…
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…
This week's edition of the Prioritizing Equity series explores the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing houselessness. In addition, experts discuss the importance of equitable, holistic, cost effective, evidence-based…
Results of a extended "homeless system racial equity process." The final report includes a deeper dive into the data analysis, systems modeling, and qualitative information supporting the recommendations on the approach and resources needed to infuse…
This webinar provided guidance and fostered innovation in best practices and strategies to create street outreach that ends homelessness. It covered topics including street outreach practices, pathways from homelessness to housing, considerations for…
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,…
Emerging evidence shows that homelessness continues to be a chronic public health problem throughout Canada. The Bridge Healing Program has been proposed in Edmonton, Alberta, as a novel approach to combat homelessness by using hospital emergency…
The goal of the report, ‘Coming of Age: Reimagining the Response to Youth Homelessness in Canada’ is to present an argument for approaching how we respond to youth homelessness in a new way. The report achieves this by pulling together key…
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.
This resource describes tiny homes in the U.S. and stewardship as a housing tenure or property relation that affords unhoused people access to land and space through co-management for individual and mutual benefit. The stewardship and co-management…
A new report from the Alliance’s Homelessness Research Institute analyzes 2018 data from the Vulnerability Index Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool to examine the different ways in which older adults exit homelessness; identify…
The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is designed to promote community wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, and State and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and…
Multnomah county's definitions of racial equity, cultural competency, and culturally specific and responsive services. The document is intended to guide contracting and procurement, but definitions given here can apply more generally.
This Guidebook and related coordinated entry tools and materials are designed to help CoCs:
● Understand the core components of coordinated entry by outlining what HUD requires
● Plan and implement a coordinated entry process appropriate to their…
Investigation of whether the VI-SPDAT is racially inequitable and prioritizes white people for housing intervention about people of color. Uses data collected from four COC, including Multnomah. Found that "on average, BIPOC clients receive…
