Earlier this week President Obama released his proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2016, which begins Oct. 1, 2015. The proposal includes strong measures to help communities re-house homeless people and prevent people who are at-risk from becoming homeless. As has become typical over the past several years, however, grave disagreement between the administration and Congress over larger budget issues means a lot of uncertainty for the future of homeless programs. The President’s budget presents a feasible best-case-scenario for progress on homelessness. (The worst-case-scenario is decidedly grimmer.) It’s based on some commonsense assumptions about homelessness.
Category: Domestic Violence
Serving Domestic Violence Survivors
Conference presentations from Serving Domestic Violence Survivors throughout the Homeless Assistance System
Domestic Violence Providers and Coordinated Assessment
Conference Presentations from 6.7 Domestic Violence Providers and Coordinated Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities at the 2013 National Conference on Ending Family and Youth Homelessness
Incorporating DV Providers into Coordinated Assessment
This document is a checklist that Continuums of Care can use to use to ensure they are considering and incorporating the needs of households fleeing domestic violence and other forms of assault and harassment into their coordinated assessment processes. In addition to addressing the individual items in this list, systems should ensure they include domestic violence providers in the discussion of how the assessment system is structured from the beginning.
Homelessness Prevention for Survivors of Domestic Violence
In March of 2012, the Alliance hosted a webinar on homelessness prevention for survivors of domestic violence. A recording of the webinar and the powerpoints that were presented during the webinar are available.