Resource Audience: Continuums of Care
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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.
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Funding Opportunities: Learn More About HUD’s Special NOFO to Address Rural Homelessness and New Stability Housing Voucher Program
Learn about an unprecedented opportunity to address rural homelessness through two funding pools offered by HUD. Local rural housing organizations can work with Continuums of Care (CoCs) and public housing agencies (PHAs) to provide emergency shelter
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Contributing to How Race and Gender are Defined Within Homelessness
At the end of October, HUD announced proposed changes to the race, ethnicity, and gender identity data elements within the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS).