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Definition of progressive engagement as it applies to homelessness.

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This webpage hosts a flowchart intended as a starting place for providers to examine racial equity in their emergency shelter, as well as a video detailing how to use the flowchart.

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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.

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Webpage, flowchart, and video intended as a starting point for thinking about where biases and racial inequity might occur in the coordinated entry system.

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This is a page hosted by the National Alliance to End Homelessness that lists many different resources on racial equity in the homelessness services system.

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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…

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Housed people aren't homeless. Learn how to apply effective strategies for housing individuals and families. Your goals in this course will be to learn how to learn how to implement a Housing First approach in your own work and in your program or…

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Helpful definition and summary of what a CoC actually is.

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Visualization and links to external studies that provide evidence for and against housing first.

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The Alliance has developed a series of 10 to 15-minute modules on the key elements of rapid re-housing. Each of these modules succinctly shares best practices from successful rapid re-housing programs and breaks down the basic elements of each…

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NAEH webpage that provides easy to understand definitions of rapid rehousing and its constitutive services (includes infographics), evidence that suggests rapid rehousing works, and more advanced guidance for practitioners.

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National Alliance to End Homelessness definition of PSH.

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Report from "Committee on an Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals."

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Recommendations developed by people with lived experience of homelessness and extreme housing instability when pregnant focusing on how to improve birth, health, housing, and other outcomes for pregnant people, parents, and their children.

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Domicile Unknown is a yearly medical examiner review of deaths among people experiencing homelessness in Multnomah County.

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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.

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Explanation of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Programs

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Homepage for Metro's supportive housing services (SHS) tax.

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After more than two years of health, economic, and social impacts from COVID-19 that amplified existing inequalities, an alarming trend surfaced in the 2022 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count numbers: a steep rise in homelessness among Latinos in the United…

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This report describes a needs assessment of Latinx persons at-risk for or who are actively homeless in Los Angeles County. We conducted interviews with stakeholders (n = 24) who work in homeless services, research, and policy. Themes from these…

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