Homeless Deaths Count is a community effort to collect comprehensive data on mortality among people experiencing homelessness across the United States.
People of color or mixed race account for more than half of all people experiencing homelessness, despite comprising less than a quarter of the total population in the United States. What are the primary drivers of this severe racial concentration of…
The need for outreach to people living unsheltered multiplied, accompanied by COVID-related funding that brought many new outreach personnel into the workforce. Simultaneous to this increase in unsheltered homelessness has been a growing need for…
Explanation of street outreach through the lens of healthcare providers for people experiencing homelessness. Webpage contains links to additional explanatory resources.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated the long-running housing crisis in the United States. The rise in unsheltered homeless encampments in many communities require new partnerships and expanded services in non-traditional settings to reach…
This resources discusses how outreach staff can use the relationship between a person experiencing homelessness and their pet to better serve the human (and to serve the pet).
Supercharge your outreach through community partnerships. Persons living unsheltered are especially vulnerable. Learn how to reach them, build a system-level strategy, and get some partners.
Courses in this series cover:
Strategies for outreach…
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.
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.
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…
In 2022, the City of Denver launched the Housing to Health Pay for Success project. The project provides supportive housing to people experiencing chronic homelessness and high rates of arrest and who are at high risk for avoidable and high-cost…
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),…