Resource Audience: Program Directors and Managers
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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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Supportive Housing: A Crucial Part of an Effective System
Supportive housing is a crucial part of a high-functioning homeless response system, connecting individuals and families with affordable housing and tailored wrap-around services.
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An Effective and Equitable Homeless Response System
What will it take for communities to have a truly effective, equitable, homeless response system? Our final System Roundtable Series will tie all the pieces of an effective, equitable, and efficient homeless response system together. Hear from system leaders with a diverse range of perspectives on what it takes, how to navigate today’s challenges, and…
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Roundtable Series – Stronger Together: A Roadmap to An Effective Homeless System
This series is designed for advocates (including people with lived expertise), system leaders, funders, program managers, and direct service providers.
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5 Steps to Making Your Space More Inclusive for LGBTQIA+ Individuals