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The Housing Collective and our partners develop and deliver tools to help planners, policymakers, service providers, and citizens create innovative and data-driven housing solutions in Connecticut.
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This webinar will share insight into anxiety and depression and equip you with practical, effective and safe strategies to powerfully support the young adults you mentor. For so many of our young people, wellness is developed and strengthened in daily living, especially at work. Add to your mentorship toolbox and boost your confidence in supporting young adults through the challenges of anxiety and depression.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Harm reduction includes a range of policies, programs, and practices that meet vulnerable individuals like runaway and homeless youth where they're at. Harm reduction practices are designed to acknowledge and reduce the risks young people face every day by developing youth-centered strategies to enhance safety in ways that work for them. Learn how to embed harm reduction techniques into your work with youth during COVID-19 and beyond to create brave spaces where youth get the care and services they deserve.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This presentation includes: Guide Overview, New & Notable Requirements - for all PSH and for Non-DMHAS only, Resources, Q & A.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This asynchronous Mandated Reporter Training course is designed to provide the most updated information regarding the accurate and prompt identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect. Legal requirements and protections for mandated reporters are discussed in detail, as well as consequences for failing to report.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This recording discusses what moving on is, the CT moving on initiative, the creation of a moving on culture, implementation strategies, challenges and supportive resources.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Health; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act provides for the delivery of services that remove barriers to the enrollment and retention of homeless children and youth in schools. This session will be beneficial and provide information to assist school staff in the liaison role.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Education; Homelessness
- Audience Residents; Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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In this facilitated webinar, presenters will provide a descriptive and demographic overview of the intersections of families, funds, and services between TANF and child welfare systems, and discuss specific initiatives that state or local programs have undertaken to increase collaboration between TANF and child welfare systems.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Setting healthy and realistic boundaries between service providers and youth participants is critical and consequential within direct service. This toolkit was developed from a training webinar and aims to support OCFS’s direct service providers to identify healthy boundary-setting techniques and how to engage young people with critical thought and awareness when building trust and balancing a professional relationship.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth experience some of the highest rates of homelessness, discrimination, violence, and self-harm among young people in the US. This toolkit, based on a 2023 webinar training with trans-identified service providers with extensive experience working with gender-expansive young people, explores best practices, actionable tools, and resources for supporting and engaging gender-expansive youth, their families, and caregivers.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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A proclamation is an official designation within a city, state, or county to honor and raise awareness on a specific day or month about a specific initiative, observance, or issue. This toolkit reviews how to get a proclamation issued in your community/state and use it to bring awareness to the critical issue of youth, young adults, and young family homelessness. The National Network for Youth has successfully requested and gotten many proclamations introduced at the federal level to raise awareness of youth homelessness and human trafficking in America.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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During NN4Y’s 2023 Summit, Texas Network of Youth Services (TNOYS) presented on the very important topic of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Youth (CSEY), Homelessness, & LGBTQ+ Youth. Session participants gained a deeper understanding of the unique needs and challenges of youth who are at risk of, currently experiencing, or exiting homelessness, including LGBTQ+ youth.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Topics include: Engagement, Education & Preferences, Assessment, Goal Development, Motivational Techniques, and Connecting to Resources
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Employment
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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The April 2023 recording of the statewide rapid rehousing systems training. This training session was facilitated by the finance department at Advancing CT Together (ACT).
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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The NN4Y and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) hosted a webinar about the types of sexual exploitation that can be reported to the CyberTipline and how to access the wide range of support services NCMEC’s specialized team can provide survivors, including emotional support, assistance with removing content, referrals to specially trained mental health professionals.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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The NN4Y and the McCain Institute hosted a webinar about our self-paced online Certificate program we developed where you earn NASW CEUs as you learn about the fundamentals of human trafficking, red flags, assessment approaches, impact of trauma, and how to serve at-risk youth.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This toolkit was developed to introduce community-based organizations that serve youth who have experienced homelessness with resources to understand Trauma-Informed Care (TIC). The toolkit focuses on how service providers can support youth’s wholeness by cultivating safety, awareness, trust, and empathy.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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How to factor utility allowances into the subsidies that Rapid Rehousing participants receive in Connecticut Continuums of Care.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar will share insight into anxiety and depression and equip you with practical, effective and safe strategies to powerfully support the young adults you mentor. For so many of our young people, wellness is developed and strengthened in daily living, especially at work. Add to your mentorship toolbox and boost your confidence in supporting young adults through the challenges of anxiety and depression.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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A comprehensive review of the requirements for Rapid Rehousing projects throughout the state of Connecticut.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Access to financial and social assets is a key contributing factor to help youth make their own economic decisions and escape poverty. Youth are 33% less likely to have a savings account than adults and 44% less likely to save in a formal institution. Providing young people with financial services and education can promote entrepreneurship and emphasize sustainable livelihoods. In this webinar, learn how to educate and guide youth through their financial journey.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Education; Employment
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Family strengthening is an intervention used to help bridge support between a youth and their familiar support systems such as mediation, family and individual counseling to resolve disputes between youth and their families, extended family members, including chosen family, who may be able to provide care support and accommodation. This training helps providers build a toolbox for communities to use family strengthening techniques to support youth and families to thrive.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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LGBTQ+ youth disproportionately experience housing instability, making up roughly 40% of the population. This training will center the needs of LGBTQ+ youth in social service RHY programs. Attendees will leave with an understanding of LGBTQ+ youth’s experience, affirming terminology and practices, and concrete tools to working with LGBTQ+ youth in empowering ways.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This toolkit is intended to give you all of the information you need to know about the policymaking process and effective advocacy strategies. In addition, this toolkit will teach you how to effectively build relationships with policymakers and influence their support of your policy recommendations. Finally, this guide also talks about strategies for sharing your personal experiences while ensuring that you choose what and how you share.
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Through this video, viewers will learn about domestic violence with a special focus on victims and survivors ages 18-24 years old.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Critical Time Intervention (CTI) is a time-limited evidence-based practice that mobilizes support for society’s most vulnerable individuals during periods of transition. This workshop provides an overview of CTI and focus on the benefits of using a housing-focused CTI case management model in Rapid Re-Housing programs. During the workshop we discuss how to measure the impact of CTI, share successes and discuss challenges and lessons learned along the way.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Learn how two successful programs - Homefull in Dayton, OH, and Friendship Place, in Washington, DC - are able to successfully rapidly re-house households with no income.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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The Alliance has developed a series of 10 to 15-minute modules on the key elements of rapid re-housing. Each of these modules succinctly shares best practices from successful rapid re-housing programs and breaks down the basic elements of each approach.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
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Innovative providers around the country have been implementing youth rapid re-housing for years, and HUD has recently vastly increased resources for the model. Therefore, the Alliance is implementing the Rapid Re-Housing for Youth Learning Community to improve knowledge and understanding of rapid re-housing as an effective model for ending youth homelessness. This is the final webinar in the learning community’s webinar series, which provides reflections on the learning community and explores a new opportunity for rapid re-housing for youth around the country and lessons learned from experienced youth rapid re-housing providers.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Want to learn more about rapid re-housing (RRH) for youth? The Alliance’s 2017 RRH for Youth Learning Community will break it down for you! In this kick-off webinar, you’ll hear from experienced youth RRH providers and other RRH experts about how to tailor this awesome Housing First intervention for young people experiencing homelessness. Stay tuned for more youth RRH webinars and resources by joining the Learning Community! Email mmitchell@naeh.org or jsaunders@naeh.org.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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National Alliance to End Homelessness experts and members of the RRH4YLC share insights and answer questions to help you determine if your community should implement the joint component for youth experiencing homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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One of the most rewarding parts of RRH for youth can also be one of its most challenging. RRH is a Housing First intervention that includes client-led, voluntary services, a harm reduction approach to case management, and no barriers (like sobriety) to getting into housing or maintaining program assistance. This online meeting of the Alliance's RRH for Youth Learning Community featured national experts on Housing First and harm reduction and experienced RRH providers who have navigated the shift to Housing First with great success for the young people they serve.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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The latest data from HUD show that funding for youth rapid re-housing (RRH) has increased by over 2000 percent since 2014! As more communities and providers across the country implement youth RRH, this webinar highlights the latest research, assessment tools, and best practices for youth RRH. Hear from a youth RRH provider and national researchers what you need to know to ramp up effective youth RRH in your community.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar offers community members an exploration of diversion: what it is, why your community should be doing it, and how it improves the response to youth homelessness. It also features an example of how diversion for youth is working on the ground in one state.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth; Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Innovative providers around the country have been implementing youth rapid re-housing for years, and HUD has recently vastly increased resources for the model. Therefore, the Alliance is implementing the Rapid Re-Housing for Youth Learning Community to improve knowledge and understanding of rapid re-housing as an effective model for ending youth homelessness. This is the second in the learning community’s webinar series, which discusses the first core component of rapid re-housing: housing identification.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Shared housing is a common living arrangement for young adults, regardless of socioeconomic status. It's also important for making rapid re-housing (RRH) work in high-cost, low-vacancy housing markets. In this second online meeting of the 2017 RRH4YLC, experienced youth RRH providers explored the ins and outs and ups and downs of shared housing, an essential part of an effective RRH program for young people experiencing homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth; Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Our goal: To improve knowledge and understanding of rapid re-housing as an effective model for ending youth homelessness. In particular: To increase understanding of youth rapid re-housing practices. Improve systems approaches to rapid re-housing for youth.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Connecting young people to employment opportunities is an essential piece of the ending youth homelessness puzzle, and it’s especially important for youth in rapid re-housing. In this third online meeting of the Alliance's 2017 RRH for Youth Learning Community, employment experts and experienced youth RRH providers discussed best practices in creating employment opportunities in programs and in the community for youth rapid re-housing clients.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth; Employment
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Innovative providers around the country have been implementing youth rapid re-housing for years, and HUD has recently vastly increased resources for the model. Therefore, the Alliance is implementing the Rapid Re-Housing for Youth Learning Community to improve knowledge and understanding of rapid re-housing as an effective model for ending youth homelessness. This is the third in the learning community’s webinar series, which discusses the second core component of rapid re-housing: rent and move-in assistance.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Innovative providers around the country have been implementing youth rapid re-housing for years, and HUD has recently vastly increased resources for the model. Therefore, the Alliance is implementing the Rapid Re-Housing for Youth Learning Community to improve knowledge and understanding of rapid re-housing as an effective model for ending youth homelessness. This is the third in the learning community’s webinar series, which discusses the third core component of rapid re-housing: case management.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Innovative providers around the country have been implementing youth rapid re-housing for years, and HUD has recently vastly increased resources for the model. Therefore, the Alliance is implementing the Rapid Re-Housing for Youth Learning Community to improve knowledge and understanding of rapid re-housing as an effective model for ending youth homelessness. This is the fifth in the learning community’s webinar series, which explores rapid re-housing as a systems approach to ending youth homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Topics covered include: Engagement, Education & Preferences, Assessment, Goal Development, Motivational Techniques, Connection to Resources
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Education
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Information regarding the updates to the Monitoring Guide, the abbreviated monitoring in 2023, and resources to help with success in monitoring and in conducting PATH Outreach.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This session will offer information, examples, and guidance on conducting behavioral health care assessments and providing behavioral health services in encampments and other unsheltered environments.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention; Health; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This session will help participants understand the basics of Coordinated Entry and how to connect people to housing and housing-related resources in the homeless response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This self-paced training is aimed at health centers that are new to the role of housing navigation. This course will walk through how to connect persons experiencing homelessness to housing and support services. As well as explore the role of a health center housing navigator.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Targetted to new PATH Outreach Workers in CT: A framework for doing outreach work with people experiencing homelessness
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Homeless Outreach Webinar: Housing Location and Stabilization
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This session will cover best and emerging practices for conducting outreach and engagement with individuals experiencing SMI, SED, SUD, or COD who are also experiencing homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This session will provide foundational information on trauma and the fundamentals of providing Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) from the lens of working to engage and provide services for people with behavioral health needs who are also experiencing homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Working with people who have experienced homelessness who are temporarily placed in hotels/motels.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This webinar is the second of a series that will focus on the different components that make up an effective outreach system. Session 2 will discuss the process of outreach, tools that can be used to assist, and the importance of having a multidisciplinary team. This webinar will examine the different roles and functions of those involved in performing outreach as well as provide tips on how to build strong community and school partnerships.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Community Organizing; Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Presentation includes: Guide Overview, New & Notable Requirements - for all PSH and for Non-DMHAS only, Resources, Q & A
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Topics include: Income Determination & Rent Calculation, Re-determination, Project Exit Requirements, and DMHAS-specific Requirements
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Agenda: Project Entry Requirements, Unit Search and Approval Requirements, Leasing Requirements, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Requirements
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This training will review the importance of a Housing Stabilization Plan and the key principles of it. During the training we will review the four steps of creating a client-centered housing stabilization plan.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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As appropriate for all Continuum of Care project types, a discussion of homeless verification, age verification, disability verification, and DedicatedPlus/Chronic homelessness definitions, and the types of documentation that fulfill HUD requirements for all.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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DMHAS Training for Supportive Housing Supervisory Staff
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Webinar regarding conversion of CoC projects from project based rental assistance to sponsor based rental assistance. Sharing of slides begins at 5 minutes into the video.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Hear from subject matter experts on organizational well-being as they share tools and resources to support supervisors in engaging in their own self-care and encouraging it among supervisees.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Through this workshop, you will learn tips and tactics for reducing your stress and anxiety while restoring your balance and increasing your resiliency. Sessions include chair yoga, the CHL program, mindful eating, journaling and much more.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. Based on the 2013 edition of Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, this five-week instructor-led course encompasses the purpose, mindset and heart-set, processes, core interviewing skills, and guiding methods of MI. Participants engage in learning through webcasts, written materials, videos, exercises, and practice opportunities. This video is for Week 1 of 5.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Education
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. Based on the 2013 edition of Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, this five-week instructor-led course encompasses the purpose, mindset and heart-set, processes, core interviewing skills, and guiding methods of MI. Participants engage in learning through webcasts, written materials, videos, exercises, and practice opportunities. This video is for Week 2 of 5.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Education
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. Based on the 2013 edition of Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, this five-week instructor-led course encompasses the purpose, mindset and heart-set, processes, core interviewing skills, and guiding methods of MI. Participants engage in learning through webcasts, written materials, videos, exercises, and practice opportunities. This video is for Week 3 of 5.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Education
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. Based on the 2013 edition of Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, this five-week instructor-led course encompasses the purpose, mindset and heart-set, processes, core interviewing skills, and guiding methods of MI. Participants engage in learning through webcasts, written materials, videos, exercises, and practice opportunities. This video is for Week 4 of 5.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Education
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. Based on the 2013 edition of Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, this five-week instructor-led course encompasses the purpose, mindset and heart-set, processes, core interviewing skills, and guiding methods of MI. Participants engage in learning through webcasts, written materials, videos, exercises, and practice opportunities. This video is for Week 5 of 5.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Education
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Making the shift to Housing First, low-barrier, and housing-focused shelter practices can be both exciting and scary, especially for your Board of Directors. Shelter operators who made this shift share the following tips for educating your Board of Directors and keeping them committed to the shelter mission.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar explores the role emergency shelter plays within the homeless response system’s coordinated strategy to safely and appropriately divert households from shelter. It explains why problem-solving conversations don’t end at Coordinated Entry.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This 60-minute webinar delves into the operations and practices of shelters that are accessible to people and their animals. Alliance staff and a shelter provider discuss how to shift philosophy and operations to welcome animal owners and a more vulnerable population into shelters. Panelists explore practical considerations and creative solutions for shelters to consider when making this shift.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Part of the Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Part of the Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Part of the Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Part of the Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Part of the Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Part of the Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Capacity Building; Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Rapid Rehousing; Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Housing Trust Fund
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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On July 12th, Jean-Michel Giraud, Friendship Place; Cathy Zall, New London Homeless Hospitality Center; and Meghann Cotter, Micah Ministries, discussed how they are using shared housing as a tool to prevent and end homelessness, particularly for single adults.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This 90-minute webinar aims to provide education and introduce several skills and techniques for working with individuals experiencing symptoms of psychosis. The first half of the webinar will utilize a presentation format with the overarching aim to improve provider confidence in working with this population.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This panel examines outreach and housing support strategies for individuals with psychotic disorders. Practitioners will each share best practices aimed at improving accessibility, stability, and community integration for this population. They will also discuss collaborative efforts among mental health, housing, and community-based professionals.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar will explore strategies for reducing, mitigating, and responding to behavioral health emergencies involving individuals experiencing homelessness. The featured panelists will discuss cross-sector provider coordination and integration and best practices for effectively responding to crisis situations. They will also provide community examples of cross-sector coordination to improve health outcomes, and offer tangible approaches to ensuring comprehensive, culturally responsive services.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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The success of supportive housing depends partly on the availability of high-quality services and supports to help people access, transition to, and sustain their tenancy in housing. This webinar will offer practical information about key federal resources available through Medicaid and SAMHSA that can be used to pay for many of these supportive housing services. Presenters will discuss tips for identifying available funding and strategies for partnerships to secure Medicaid and SAMHSA funding.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar will highlight different models of medical respite care and approaches to providing high-quality behavioral health services. Program representatives will discuss issues related to addressing stigma and training staff, and participants will learn more about the model’s whole-person care approach. This will be an interactive webinar that will allow ample time for questions, answers, and discussion.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This webinar focused on increasing access to supportive housing as an option for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This webinar highlighted examples of state efforts to address and dismantle barriers, resulting in increased access to quality, safe, affordable, and supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Accessibility
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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In this webinar, panelists will provide a brief overview of Xylazine, a substance newly found in illicit drug supplies, and its impacts on the unsheltered community. Panelists will share their lived expertise with xylazine, its effects, organizational best practices for wound care, overdose response, and harm reduction.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Agenda includes: RRH and Susbtance Use, Changing Behavior, Motivation for Change, Harm Reduction
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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There has been an increase in older adults entering our homeless response system with mental health conditions. This training will highlight some of the root causes of homelessness for the older adult population and review common mental health conditions that they experience. Services and supports that homeless service providers can use to support their clients will also be thoroughly reviewed.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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People experiencing homelessness face unique challenges and barriers that complicate and intensify in disaster situations. Planning for disaster response is essential for people experiencing homelessness who have behavioral health conditions and the providers that serve them. Join this webinar to learn how to start planning for disaster response and to hear from one community well versed in these situations.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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The Fair Housing Act (FHA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in all types of housing transactions. The FHA's definition of disability includes physical and mental impairments that limit one or more major life activity. In this session of the Fair Housing 2021: What Counselors Need to Know Conference, counselors received guidance on reasonable modifications and reasonable accommodations, including rights to assistance animals.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Accessibility
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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There are many orders of protection available to protect victims and survivors of domestic violence In Connecticut. This training will explore the two main orders of protection issued in Connecticut. In addition, we will review the other types of orders that are available and/or issued in this state.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Transgender individuals are significantly more likely to experience homelessness at some point in their life than the general population. During this training we will provide you with information and insight about transgender individuals, review the different types of laws that protect transgender individuals from discrimination, thoroughly discuss best practices and our commitment to ensure equal access for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. We hope you join us for this informative as well as engaging training.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This webinar offers an overview of Section 508 and how to apply web-based standards to the development of documents and websites to enable equal access to information for all persons with sensory impairment.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Accessibility
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Employment; Homelessness; Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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In this webinar, panelists will answer questions about the challenges and opportunities organizations experience when establishing new peer roles. Leaders at organizations with established peer roles will talk about the process of onboarding peers, such as building organizational buy-in, addressing stigma in policies and in the workplace, and recruiting and employing peer workers in an equitable way.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Employment; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
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This webinar, led by panelists currently providing peer services, will introduce a new toolkit developed to provide guidance and strategies to integrate and sustain peer workers within homeless service organizations. Speakers will explore the impact of peer-led services on outcomes, identify opportunities for support, and reflect on their experiences with onboarding and daily operations in these roles.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
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Building community in supportive housing is essential to helping tenants turn their units into homes where they can thrive. Join us for a special free webinar with trainer Amiyoko Shabazz, CSH Speak Up! Advocate and tenant in supportive housing to learn strategies to work collaboratively with tenants to build community in your program and connect with the larger community.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
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This recorded webinar is will explore best practices for tenant leadership.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
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