Resource Best Practice: Street Outreach
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Housing-Focused Street Outreach: Strategic Collaboration and Partnerships
Strategic collaboration and partnerships are essential to an effective Housing-Focused Street Outreach strategy. By fostering strong coordination and leveraging diverse relationships both within and beyond the Continuum of Care (CoC), communities can better meet the complex needs of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. In this webinar, hear from communities that have successfully implemented collaborative approaches, highlighting…
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Housing-Focused Street Outreach: Starting with Data to Inform Decision-Making
Effective street outreach begins with a strong foundation in data. Quantitative data helps identify demographic and geographic patterns in unsheltered homelessness, uncover resource gaps, highlight disparities, and measure the effectiveness of interventions. Equally important, qualitative data provides critical insights that shape broader strategies and ensure outreach efforts are responsive to community needs. This webinar will…
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Housing-Focused Street Outreach Framework
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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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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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Working with Unsheltered People: Findings from the Alliance’s Workforce Survey
During the summer of 2023, the Alliance surveyed the nation’s homeless services workforce. The online questions were answered by 5,044 people in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The…
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New Federal Funding Boosts Unsheltered Homelessness Response
Unsheltered homelessness rose to an estimated 256,610 people on one night in January 2023, up 9.7 percent from the prior year. This continued a trend of increases that began in 2016 and has occurred every year since.
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Street Outreach: What Peers Bring to the Work
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Street Outreach: First Contact and Establishing Trust
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Conducting an Unsheltered Point-in-Time Count During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dan Treglia, PhD MPP; Daphne Chimbel BSW; Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH University of Pennsylvania…