Resource Audience: Continuums of Care
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Opioid Abuse and Homelessness
The issue of opioid abuse has risen to a level of national crisis as the number of people abusing prescription drugs and heroin has dramatically risen, and the rate of opioid-related overdose deaths has tripled since 2000.2 In 2014, an estimated 2.5 million people had opioid-use disorders (OUD) involving prescription drug or heroin abuse, and…
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Rapid Re-Housing Performance Benchmarks and Program Standards
Rapid re-housing is an intervention designed to help individuals and families to quickly exit homelessness, return to housing in the community, and not become homeless again in the near term.
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Five High Impact Steps for Mayors to End Veteran Homelessness
This resource is meant for mayors who have signed on to the Mayors Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness by 2015.
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Ramping Up Rapid Re-Housing: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
This brief on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one in a series providing community leaders and rapid re-housing providers with information on how they can use different federal programs to fund rapid re-housing. Each brief contains information on the funding source, ways it can be used to support rapid re-housing, and examples…
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Ramping Up Rapid Re-Housing: Supportive Service for Veteran Families Program
This brief on the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program is one in a series that is intended to provide community leaders and rapid re-housing providers with information on how they can use different federal programs to fund rapid re-housing. Each brief contains information on the funding source, ways it can be used to support…
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Sample Veteran Homelessness Master List
These sample master lists are meant to serve as a model for communities following the Alliance’s “Five Steps to End Veteran Homelessness.”
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Five Steps to End Veteran Homelessness
This one-page document outlines the five major steps that communities must take to end veteran homelessness.
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Assessment Tools for Allocating Homelessness Assistance: State of the Evidence
On November 5, 2014, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, in partnership with the National Alliance to End Homelessness (the Alliance), convened a panel of experts to discuss assessment tools that communities are using to allocate homeless assistance and to consider the evidence base for the questions used in the tools. This report summarizes…
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Core Components of Rapid Re-Housing
This resource identifies the core components of Rapid Re-housing. The Alliance developed it in collaboration with the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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Overcoming Employment Barriers
Although research consistently shows that people experiencing homelessness want to work, they often face a variety of barriers to achieving this goal.