Resource Audience: Program Directors and Managers

  • Core Components of Rapid Re-Housing

    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).

  • Alameda County Social Services Agency and EveryOne Home

    Alameda County Social Services Agency and EveryOne Home

    This brief highlights two successful collaboration between EveryOne Home and Alameda County Social Services Agency to end family homelessness. It describes an initiative that combined the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund and the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP) program, and a demonstration pilot that uses federal child welfare resources and the expertise of local homeless…

  • Overcoming Employment Barriers

    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.

  • Retooling Transitional Housing Checklist

    Retooling Transitional Housing Checklist

    This checklist provides a timeline and conceptual plan for transitional housing providers seeking to retool their programs.

  • Performance Improvement Calculator

    Performance Improvement Calculator

    The Performance Improvement Calculator is an interactive tool that allows communities to use local cost and performance data on homeless programs to model strategies that decrease homelessness.

  • Supporting Homeless Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth

    Supporting Homeless Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth

    This toolkit includes definitions of transgender and gender nonconforming populations, data on the transgender adult population, and recommendations for providing services to transgender youth who are experiencing homelessness.

  • Prevention Targeting 101

    Prevention Targeting 101

    This brief is a concise how-to guide on how communities can begin or improve efforts to identify and effectively assist the households who are most likely to become homeless and serve them appropriately.

  • Coordinated Entry Evaluation Tool

    Coordinated Entry Evaluation Tool

    Communities can use this tool as a quick way to assess how well their coordinated entry system is functioning.

  • Organizational Change: Adopting a Housing First Approach

    Organizational Change: Adopting a Housing First Approach

    This document outlines the key strategies of a Housing First approach – it can help organizations that are planning to use HPRP resources to shift their organization’s approach toward a Housing First model.

  • Homelessness Prevention Guide

    Homelessness Prevention Guide

    The National Alliance to End Homelessness has published this guide and companion to help organizations create a homelessness prevention program or improve an existing prevention program.