"Introduction: Intensive Case Management (ICM) is a community‐based package of care aiming to provide long‐term care for severely mentally ill people who do not require immediate admission. Intensive Case Management evolved from two original…
Although interest in addressing homelessness with tiny house villages continues to grow, they face numerous barriers, from land use laws to resident concerns about homeless populations. This research examines such barriers, in addition to strategies…
Determining the right time to end assistance and close a case is one of the hardest decisions a service provider must make. For both consumers and providers, it can be a challenging time. On April 27th at Ben Noll from Friendship Place presented on…
In this learning brief, we focus specifically on how medically-supported street outreach or street medicine can be integrated into a community’s homelessness response. We have drawn examples from several different U.S. cities and counties and…
This Learning Community will cover the fundamentals of trauma-informed care and best practices for outreach to and engagement with individuals experiencing homelessness who have a serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED),…
Racial equity is a value and practice that should permeate every aspect of homeless services, from funding to delivery. Applying what we learned through our experience leading the 10-year Family Homelessness Initiative, Building Changes has developed…
Rapid Re-Housing connects people experiencing homelessness to permanent housing in the private rental market. Applying what we learned through our experience leading the 10-year Family Homelessness Initiative, Building Changes has developed a list of…
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.
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.
This guide provides information on the core components of low-barrier shelters. It provides examples of key policies, procedures to support those policies, and ideas for navigating common challenges in implementation.
Our Emergency Rental Assistance Priority (ERAP) Index helps local decision makers identify neighborhoods with the greatest need for rental assistance and apply an equity lens when allocating these resources. Search for your county to see data that,…
Background: The literature on interventions addressing the intersection of homelessness, mental illness and race is scant. The At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project is a pragmatic field trial investigating a Housing First intervention for…
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,…
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.
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…
Over fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, how have mechanisms of residential segregation changed? Using a case study of a Los Angeles suburb’s reaction to Black movement through the federal Housing Choice Voucher program, I argue…
