Exploring Home, Together Podcast Series
In “Exploring Home, Together,” Communications Specialist Veronica Mills and the USICH team walk through the objectives in the federal plan to prevent and end homelessness one by one.
View Tool →The Evidence Behind Approaches that Drive an End to Homelessness
To improve housing outcomes, communities are making a fundamental shift to Housing First approaches. Effective Housing First approaches, developed in response to strong evidence, include: prioritizing people experiencing homelessness for new and existing affordable housing; providing rapid re-housing to families and individuals; and providing supportive housing opportunities to people with the most intense needs.
View Tool →Building Child Welfare and Housing Partnerships to Prevent and End Youth Homelessness: Nashville’s Alternative Response
This YHDP team in Nashville, TN, shares current and planned efforts to build an alternative response as part of their coordinated community plan.
View Tool →Webinar: Overview of HUD’s Specialized Housing and Services for Victims of Human Trafficking NOFA
Per HUD's website, this NOFA has been postponed.
View Tool →Case Studies: Connecting Supportive Housing and Health Systems to End Chronic Homelessness among People with Disabilities
To end chronic homelessness among people with disabilities, we must work together across the public and private sectors to expand the supply of supportive housing opportunities for people with the most intensive needs and connect individuals to the health and behavioral health supports necessary for promoting their housing stability. These case studies were developed to highlight innovative community partnerships between the homelessness services system and health systems.
View Tool →Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Resources
These resources can help homelessness services systems prepare for disasters and respond and recover after they happen.
View Tool →CoC NOFA FY 2019: What’s New and How to Build Upon Your Work to End Homelessness
USICH staff provide a high-level overview of HUD’s FY 2019 CoC Program NOFA, including policy priorities, scoring, and key changes from the FY 2018 NOFA.
View Tool →Adopting Housing Problem-Solving Approaches with Prevention, Diversion, and Rapid Exit Strategies
Housing problem-solving approaches support the effective implementation of homelessness prevention, diversion, and rapid exit strategies – strategies that should be a part of every coordinated entry process and are offered as potential housing pathways for all populations.
Make sure to also read Prevention, Diversion, and Rapid Exit.
View Tool →Prevention, Diversion, and Rapid Exit
This document clarifies the terms prevention, diversion, and rapid exit, explains how they differ from each other, and offers considerations for implementation.
View Tool →Working with Education Partners in Rural Communities to Serve Youth Experiencing Homelessness: NW Michigan and the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (ED)
This brief from the National Center for Homeless Education highlights strategies by the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project in rural Northwest Michigan for integrating schools and service providers into an interagency partnership that provides services for youth and young adults experiencing homelessness across a five-county geographic area.
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