Resource Audience: Continuums of Care
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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.
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Retooling Transitional Housing Checklist
This checklist provides a timeline and conceptual plan for transitional housing providers seeking to retool their programs.
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The Continuum of Care Spending Plan Template
The Federal Government is encouraging communities to reduce homelessness by allocating resources to permanent solutions such as rapid re-housing and permanent supportive housing. This template has been created to help identify how resources in the Continuum of Care region are currently allocated, how resources will be utilized, and how existing resources will be reallocated.
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Recommendations for Effective Implementation of the HEARTH Act Continuum of Care Regulations
The purpose of this document is to help Continuums take advantage of opportunities in the interim Continuum of Care regulations to further the use of national best practices in their communities. The Alliance’s recommendations focus on coordinated assessment, transitional housing, rapid re-housing, and governance and performance measurement. This brief also contains many links to other…
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Homeless System Simulation
On this page you will find materials to print and facilitate your own Homeless System Simulation Game