Resource Type: Webinars
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Housing-Focused Street Outreach: Ensuring a Consistent, Housing-Focused Approach
A housing-focused approach, grounded in the Housing First philosophy, is central to the Housing-Focused Street Outreach Framework. It aligns system-level strategies, beliefs, and practices to ensure that street outreach efforts prioritize transitions from unsheltered homelessness directly into permanent housing—or into crisis housing when available and appropriate. However, this approach is only effective when key conditions…
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Housing-Focused Street Outreach: Promoting Health and Safety for All
A comprehensive Housing-Focused Street Outreach strategy must consider the health and safety of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, the broader community, and the dedicated staff who work with the most vulnerable populations. To achieve this, outreach teams must adopt practices that promote well-being, reduce harm, and foster safe environments for all. In this webinar, hear from…
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Housing-Focused Street Outreach: Centering the Whole Person
Person-Centered engagement focuses on building strong, trusting relationships that honor the dignity and autonomy of people experiencing homelessness. This approach supports individuals in reclaiming their sense of agency and personal power. Person-centered engagement is a core practice within Housing-Focused Street Outreach, ensuring that outreach efforts are compassionate, respectful, and effective. In this webinar, hear from…
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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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Being a Great Messenger: Engaging Effectively with Lawmakers on the Local, State & Federal Level
In this virtual conversation, hear from experts across the country on proven methods for educating lawmakers that nurtures trust, long-standing relationships and open dialogue.
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Interim Strategies For Responding To Unsheltered Homelessness
Although permanent housing paired with services and supports tailored to the household remains the only permanent solution to homelessness, there is no community in the country that has an adequate housing supply or social safety net. This, combined with insufficient shelter capacity, results in more and more people forced to sleep outside.
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Post-Election Discussion: Navigating Homelessness Policy and FY25 Appropriations
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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.