The Conference Framework
In order to end individual adult homelessness we will have to be able to reach out to people who are unsheltered; maintain decent, low-barrier shelters and other crisis responses; make sure people have rapid access to permanent places to live; and link them to employment and needed services. All of this will need to be done within a homelessness system that is outcome-oriented and addresses racial and other disparities. The Solutions for Individual Homeless Adults Conference will cover these key areas through the sessions below:
Unsheltered Homelessness: Strategies to Understand and Address Unsheltered Homelessness
- Understanding and Responding to Unsheltered Homelessness
- Approaches to Encampment Resolution
- Are Sanctioned Encampments a Good Idea?
- When the Closest Shelter is 100 Miles Away: Unsheltered in Rural America
- Public Employees Reach Out: Partners in Ending Street Homelessness
- Tailoring Outreach to Highly Vulnerable Subpopulations
- Critical Connections: Engaging Unsheltered Adults
- Win-Wins on Unsheltered Homelessness: Humane Solutions, Visible Results
- Law Enforcement Partners Can Help End Individual Adult Homelessness: Here’s How!
Crisis Response: Designing an Efficient and Effective Crisis Response
- Overcoming Legal Barriers
- How to Ramp Up Shelter Capacity, Quickly
- Assessing Shelter Capacity
- Targeted Shelter: When to Specialize?
- Principles and Practice: Housing First, Harm Reduction, and Crisis Resolution
- Lowering Shelter Barriers for People Who Are Unsheltered
- Identifying and Implementing Behavioral Health Strategies with Special Attention to Race
- Longer-Term Crisis Housing Models for Individual Adults
- How Diversion Techniques are Helping Avert Homelessness and Facilitating Self-Resolution
- Making Housing the Primary Goal of Emergency Shelter Services
- Peer Support for Individual Homeless Adults
- What Caseworkers Should Know
- Special Considerations: Homelessness Among Undocumented Individuals
- Identifying and Mobilizing Community Resources to Expand Shelter Options
- Opioid Use Among Homeless Individuals
Housing: Increasing Affordable Permanent Housing Options for Individual Adults and Quickly Returning Those Experiencing Homelessness to Their Own Housing
- Rapid Re-Housing for Individual Homeless Adults: No Need to Reinvent the Wheel
- Section 811 Housing Vouchers: New Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities
- Tailoring RRH Responses: Taking Populations and Geographies into Account
- Partnering with Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) to End Individual Adult Homelessness
- Thinking Outside the One-Bedroom Apartment Box: Non-Traditional Affordable Housing Options
- How to Find, Engage, and Motivate Landlords
- Innovations in Housing: Working Outside of HUD to Create New Opportunities
- Three Best Practices to Connect Jobseekers Experiencing Homelessness to Employment
- Designing Adequate Services in PSH for Highly Vulnerable or Disabled Individuals
- The Family Option
- Experimenting with Innovative Subsidy Models
- Housing and Service Options for Older Adults
- Preventing Homelessness for Youth Exiting Foster Care
Systemic Response: Implementing a Performance-Based Systemic Response to Homelessness that Functions Across the Community and Across Mainstream Agencies to Ensure That Homelessness and Housing Instability for Individual Adults is Rare, Brief, and Non-Recurring
- Coordinated Approaches to Ending Youth Homelessness
- Coordinated Entry: Making It Work for Everyone
- Designing Coordinated Entry Systems and Prioritization to Better Serve Individual Adults
- Helping Everyone Go Home: Resolving Homelessness for People Who Aren’t Prioritized for a Housing Intervention
- A Systemic Response to Individual Adult Homelessness in Rural Areas
- Data Collection on Unsheltered Homelessness for Continuous Performance Improvement
- Homelessness and Workforce Systems Speed-Dating: Making the Perfect Match
- Building State Medicaid and Housing Agency Partnerships
- Integrating and Coordinating Outreach Efforts
- Second Chances: Ending Homelessness for Formerly Incarcerated Individual Homeless Adults
- More than an Acronym Salad: The Importance of WIOA, SNAP E&T, WDBs, BIDs, and Medicaid for Jobseekers Experiencing Homelessness
Please visit the conference website frequently for updates.