Resource Type: Toolkits and Training
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Housing First
Housing First is a homeless assistance approach that prioritizes providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness, thus ending their homelessness and serving as a platform from which they can pursue personal goals and improve their quality of life.
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Exploring the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 Emergency Housing Resources
New federal COVID-19 relief resources include unprecedented investments in Emergency Housing Vouchers and Emergency Rental Assistance.
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Alliance Resource Series: Using COVID-19 Federal Funding to End Homelessness
Federal relief funds to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provide communities with an opportunity to end homelessness for more people than ever before.
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Critical Time Intervention for Rapid Re-Housing
Critical Time Intervention for Rapid Re-Housing (CTI-RRH) is a time-limited evidence-based practice that mobilizes support for vulnerable individuals during periods of transition.
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Racial Equity and Emergency Shelter: Access and Outcomes
Emergency shelter is a critical component of the homeless services system. Shelters allow people experiencing homelessness to access immediate needs like sleep, food, medical care, and safety.
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Diversion
Diversion is an intervention designed to immediately address the needs of someone who has just lost their housing and become homeless.
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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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How to Effectively Work with Federal, State, and Local Leaders
Regular engagement with elected officials is critical to any community’s efforts to end homelessness.
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Federal Budgeting 101: Why Advocates Matter
Every year, the Alliance and its partners work to educate Congress on increasing federal funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants.
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Keeping People and Pets Together
In communities around the United States, a significant number of people experiencing homelessness own pets.