Resource Best Practice: Coordinated Entry
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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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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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Racial Equity & Coordinated Entry: Where Can Disparities Happen in the Process?
Coordinated entry is a mechanism to shift homeless systems’ response methods from project-centric to person-centric, and based on community-level standards for referrals and program entry.
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Ending Veteran Homelessness in Virginia: A Statewide Collaboration
n 2013, Virginia convened a state summit on veteran homelessness. The summit launched a year of research and a robust 100-Day Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness in four communities…
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Coordinated Entry Community Samples Resource Library
Per the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Continuum of Care (CoC) Program interim rule, each CoC is required to implement a coordinated entry system that covers the geographic area of their CoC.
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Coordinated Assessment: Domestic Violence Survivors
Coordinated assessment centers must be prepared to serve domestic violence survivors seeking assistance and must be able to accommodate their safety and confidentiality needs.
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Creating Systems That Work
To address homelessness, communities should take a coordinated approach, moving from a collection of individual programs to a community-wide response that is strategic and data driven. Communities that have adopted this approach use data about the needs of those experiencing homelessness to inform how they allocate resources, services, and programs.
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Crisis Response
The goals of an effective crisis response system are to identify those experiencing homelessness, prevent homelessness when possible, connect people with housing quickly and provide services when needed.
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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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Incorporating DV Providers into Coordinated Assessment
This document is a checklist that Continuums of Care can use to use to ensure they are considering and incorporating the needs of households