Resource Audience: Continuums of Care
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Interim Strategies For Responding To Unsheltered Homelessness
Although permanent housing paired with services and supports tailored to the household remains the only permanent solution to homelessness, there is no community in the country that has an adequate housing supply or social safety net. This, combined with insufficient shelter capacity, results in more and more people forced to sleep outside.
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Interim Strategies For Responding To Unsheltered Homelessness
Permanent housing strategies remain both an immediate and the sole long-term solution to homelessness. Whenever possible, people should be connected directly to housing from wherever they are currently residing.
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Race-ing to Thrive: Homeless Service Workforce Survey Reveals Low Salaries (and Other Challenges) More Greatly Impact People of Color
Pressures on the homeless services workforce are widespread. The Alliance’s 2023 survey of the field shed further light on employees navigating challenging environments marked by understaffing and high turnover, feelings of being overworked, and personal sacrifices significantly tied to low salaries and financial hardship.
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Coordinated Entry: Best Practices in Centering Equity and Ensuring Effectiveness
Effective Coordinated Entry systems increase consistency, efficiency, and equity in communities’ work to end homelessness. In practice, implementation has been an enormous challenge—making the scale of homelessness more visible, laying bare gaps in existing services
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Housing Problem-Solving: From Diversion to Rapid Exit and Beyond
Housing problem-solving is a transformative, person-centered strategy exploring innovative, secure, cost-effective solutions for swiftly resolving housing crises.
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Effective Street Outreach: From Unsheltered to Housed
With unsheltered homelessness rising nationwide, communities are actively streamlining outreach efforts at the systemic level. This includes integrating outreach seamlessly into Coordinated Entry (CE) and facilitating swift housing referrals
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Targeted Homelessness Prevention: Stemming the Inflow
Effectively tackling homelessness requires a strategic upstream approach prioritizing housing stability before individuals enter the homeless system. Given the constraints of limited homeless prevention resources, it is crucial to direct these resources towards those at the highest risk of homelessness.
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Elevating the Needs of the Homeless Services Workforce: Findings from Recent Nationwide Surveys
Human services workers across multiple sectors have been yelling from the rooftops that their professions are in distress. The homeless services workforce is adding to the chorus. T
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Promoting Equity, Lived Experience, Housing First, and System Performance: What Matters in the 2023 NOFO
The FY 2023 CoC Program Competition has arrived. In this webinar, Alliance team members Mary Frances Kenion, Josh Johnson, Kay Moshier McDivitt, and Marcy Thompson share information about changes, priorities, guidance on crafting a competitive application
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The 2022 CoC Program Competition Prioritizes Racial Equity and LGBTQ+ Anti-Discrimination: How to Get Started
In this year’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), CoCs are incentivized to assess their systems and programs for racial disparities, develop strategies to address equity, and improve LGBTQ+ outcomes.