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February 18, 2025

NEW ONLINE COURSE

Caring for Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: For Service Providers

More and more older adults are experiencing homelessness, and the homeless population is aging. Learn strategies for meeting the needs of this uniquely vulnerable population.

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The Alliance’s Center for Learning works to empower the homeless response field with evidence-based best practices for addressing homelessness in your community.

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The Center for Capacity Building offers dynamic training programs and technical assistance, available both remotely and on-site, designed to help communities move more effectively toward an end to homelessness.

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This was eye opening for me… I am so grateful to my supervisor for having us take this training. Just takes the compassion I have for people to a whole new level and desire to reach more people. Thank you for this!”
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Training Overview

“>The Alliance’s Center for Capacity Building is a mission-driven division dedicated to helping cities, counties, states, and nonprofits expedite the end of homelessness. It collaborates with these organizations and individuals experiencing homelessness to implement evidence-based best practices and innovate in new and emerging areas of concern.

“>Topic: Housing First

“>The Housing First 101 Training is designed to improve providers’ knowledge about and implementation of an effective Housing First approach. The training introduces the Housing First philosophy and provides participants with the core concepts of Housing First and best practice implementation.
“>The Housing First and Effective System Training is designed to improve providers’ knowledge about and implementation of an effective Housing First Approach. The training focuses on best practices in using a Housing First Approach across the homeless response system and provider programs including the role that messaging plays in the effectiveness of the approach. The training is interactive and includes group discussions, small group breakouts, and large group debriefs from participants.
“>The Housing First Permanent Housing Provider Training is designed to improve providers’ knowledge about and implementation of a Housing First Approach in permanent housing programs (RRH, TH, TH/RRH, PSH) within a Housing First-oriented Homeless Response System. The training situates permanent housing programs’ roles within the larger system and focuses on the promotion of effective practices and the dispelling of myths and misconceptions about Housing First.

“>Topic: System Design

“>System Design Training and Technical Assistance – The Alliance works with CoCs to make changes in their homeless response system including implementing best practice policies and procedures, and right sizing their system to ensure that homelessness is rare, brief, and one time. the Alliance collects and analyzes a comprehensive set of data elements that describe a community’s homeless population, the system’s ability to move people to permanent housing quickly, and the system’s cost-efficiency. The Alliance will qualitatively analyze a system by surveying community leaders, providers including executive directors and front-line staff, and people experiencing homelessness. Our qualitative analysis also involves reviewing planning and operation documents, and evaluation reports. Through training and consultation, the Alliance guides the community in creating action plans to achieve identified priorities and, following a training and/or technical assistance, support implementation efforts. System Design training and technical assistance is offered on-site and/or virtually.
Homeless Response System Assessment and Recommendations – The Alliance works with CoCs to provide analysis and recommendations to the CoC Collaborative Applicant, CoC Governance Board and community stakeholders on implementation of best practices in crisis response systems, including reviewing core system components such as CoC Governance, Coordinated Entry, Outreach, Homelessness Prevention, Diversion, Emergency Shelter, Rapid Re-Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing and others, analyze data including System Performance Measures and key housing outcomes by program type, and develop recommendations on strategies, including the role of CoC governance and its critical role in coordinating this system, to address identified challenges to ensure homelessness is rare, brief, and one time.
Remote technical assistance and guidance on designing an outcomes-focused homelessness crisis response system.

“>Topic: Rapid Re-Housing

“>Topic: Emergency Shelter and the Critical Role in the Crisis Response System

Topic: Housing Problem-Solving and Diversion Training and Technical Assistance

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