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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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Guidance to help local leaders and community partners act with urgency to successfully and compassionately address the crisis of unsheltered homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Outreach
- Audience Officials; Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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Harm reduction includes a range of policies, programs, and practices that meet marginalized communities 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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This research outlines how greater progress can be made if nonprofits, government agencies, businesses and the public come together around a common agenda to create collective impact.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media PDF
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Website
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This training provides an understanding of how to create structures and systems that recognize the traumas that exist and that prioritize the wellness of young people and program staff.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Youth; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This is the third part of a three-part Learning Community Series on Supportive Housing Models that Work. Hear from subject matter experts and a community provider on strategies for ensuring promotion of racial equity in supportive and/or recovery housing programs.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; DEIB
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This is the first part of a three-part Learning Community Series on Supportive Housing Models that Work. Hear from subject matter experts and a community provider about the range of supportive housing and recovery housing models and practices that assist individuals in accessing and sustaining housing and promoting improved health, wellness, and recovery.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This is the second part of a three-part Learning Community Series on Supportive Housing Models that Work. Hear from subject matter experts and a community provider about evidence-based practice interventions used to successfully engage individuals in accessing and sustaining housing, improve health, wellness, and recovery, and how to support staff in utilization of these interventions.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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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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This self-paced training is the first part of our supportive housing onboarding series. This short self-paced module introduces supportive housing models, approaches, and components of quality supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar will help you adopt a low-barrier approach to permanent supportive housing and rapid re-housing. We review how to assess your current coordinated assessment processes as well as individual program applications for criteria that screen out rather than in.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar is designed to explain how housing authorities have the ability to create two key resources that can alter the landscape of homeless assistance and create more housing opportunities/resources for vulnerable households.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to react to scenarios and case studies, explore sample conversation starters, and reflect on the information provided to identify key takeaways that you will use in your practice.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Outreach; Education
- Audience Residents
- Media Website
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Education
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This self-paced training discusses the Olmstead Decision, defines quality supportive housing, and describes the different models of integrated supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region USA
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Conflict is a normal part of life and relationship, but conflict can cause patients and staff to feel vulnerable, threatened, and out of control. How we feel about conflict and how we seek to resolve conflict can have an enormous impact on our ability to engage patients in crisis as well as our co-workers and team members. Discover principles of conflict resolution that can equip staff to discuss and problem solve disagreement in a functional, healthy manner.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Prepare for an emergency situation by learning when and how to call 911 from a health center. Explore training and planning strategies that equip health centers for crisis situations. Consider how partnerships can contribute to community safety. Learn to identify and appropriately respond to each type of emergency. Prepare to act in the event of an emergency. Consider the events and scenarios that require urgent response and whether a call to 911 is appropriate.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This introductory course provides an overview of organizational safety in health care for the homeless (HCH) health centers. The course will define organizational safety and provide an overview of the four components of an organizational culture of safety: leadership, policies and procedures, communication, and staff supports. This course is intended for all staffing levels within HCH health centers and will include information on how everyone can play a role in developing and maintaining a culture of safety.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Discover basic principles of de-escalation to apply when engaging a patient or co-worker who is experiencing increased agitation, aggression, fear, or anger.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Safety and security are primary issues for both patients and staff of health care for the homeless health centers. It is important for health center staff to understand foundational factors to consider and discuss in order to increase their own personal safety and support the safety and security of their team members and patients.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar is designed to share best practices for preventing evictions from single site supportive housing and provides an overview of the importance of housing stability and common risks for instability.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Youth involvement can benefit organizations and their programs as well as the youth themselves. Programs that are developed in partnership with youth are more likely to be effective at engaging the population and, therefore, to have a greater impact. Involving youth as partners in making decisions that affect them increases the likelihood that the decisions will be accepted, adopted, and become part of their everyday lives.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
- 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; DEIB
- 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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The Family and Youth Services Bureau requires training for all staff of RHY grantees. These trainings are outlined in Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFO) for Basic Center Programs (BCP), Street Outreach Programs (SOP), Transitional Living Programs (TLP), Maternity Group Homes (MGH), and Prevention Demonstration Programs (PDP).
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media PDF
- 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; DEIB
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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The NN4Y hosted a webinar to discuss the complexity of federal definitions of homelessness. Watch this webinar to learn how the lack of a cohesive definition of homelessness impacts youth and young adults.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Please watch each video in this toolkit to learn more about supervising rapid re-housing (RRH) programs. Reviewing the full toolkit should take about 3.5 hours. All videos do not have to be completed in one sitting. If you decide to stop and return at another time, please make a note of which videos you have completed so you can pick up where you left off.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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HUD sponsorsed a second round of the Rapid Rehousing (RRH) Roundtable Discussion Series. Sessions took place every six weeks, with topics to be determined along the way. Each webinar in the series hosted a facilitated dialogue amongst a small group of panelists and included an opportunity for participants to submit questions to the panelists and technical assistance (TA) providers.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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The Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act (RHYTPA) of 2022 has been reintroduced. This legislation will comprehensively update and reauthorize the vital Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA). This webinar will provide an overview of the vital RHYA program and what key updates would be made to this program by RHYTPA. You will also learn about our strategy to get this bill to become a law before the end of 2022. Watch the webinar today and share with your network!
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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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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; DEIB
- 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 Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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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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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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These free training resources are part of our collaborative effort to affirm the work of RHY providers and RHY municipal coordinators working on the ground to end youth homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- 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 Webinar
- Region USA
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In this webinar jointly hosted by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) and the departments of Education and Treasury, presenters covered: an overview of the ERA program, an overview of the ARP-ESSER and ARP-HCY funds, promising state and local partnerships between the ERA and the K12 systems; and recommendations for developing these partnerships.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Education; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Effective diversion has never been more important than during the coronavirus pandemic. This webinar provides an overview of diversion, the best diversion practices, and how communities are implementing diversion to ensure that new federal COVID-19 homelessness resources are most effectively and efficiently targeted. Accompanying slides and resources are linked below.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- 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 Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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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 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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Discuss the need for trauma-informed care across outreach and engagement efforts and services. Identify the different purposes and types of outreach that are provided in response to homelessness. Describe key skills for engaging with people experiencing homelessness in a trauma-informed manner. Explain how outreach and engagement efforts help address mental health and substance use needs for those experiencing homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This webinar provided guidance and fostered innovation in best practices and strategies in stakeholder engagement for homeless services systems. It covered topics including incorporating people with lived experience and expertise of homelessness, advancing equity, and considerations for rural areas and Tribal Nations.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Community Organizing; DEIB
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Housing Affordability; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Training is required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) new lead-based paint regulation (24 CFR Part 35, et al.). This training is intended for those already inspecting housing units. This training will build on your existing building inspection and assessment skills to perform visual assessments.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This self-paced training is for supportive housing service providers. This course provides practical guidance and best practices for conducting home visits with families and individuals living in supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar discusses Moving On (sometimes called “Moving Up”) initiatives that further advance supportive housing as a platform for tenant success by empowering tenants who no longer need or want to live in supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This self-paced training is designed to explain the high standards and certification process CSH has established to identify the best, most-effective supportive housing in the country.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This course trains case workers to assist adults (age 18+) who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder to apply for the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) disability programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This course trains case workers to assist children (under age 18) who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder to apply for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefit program.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Youth; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Follow this guidance to register for OAT and enter the outcomes of your SOAR-assisted SSI/SSDI applications.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media PDF
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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In this USICH webinar about All In: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, presenters covered the following: The current state of homelessness; The public-input process for developing All In; An overview of All In 's strategies; How USICH will implement All In ; How USICH will measure progress; How communities and partners can use All In.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Collective Impact; Community Organizing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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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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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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This workshop will provide an overview of working with people with lived experience and how to create a safe environment for them to thrive within your organization. Learn techniques to support peers with lived experience and how to create an environment where they can contribute meaningfully without being retraumatized themselves.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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Learn about the concept of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and how they are important to your work and the clients you work with. Gain knowledge on the factors that make up social determinants of health while exploring the importance of asking these questions in a uniform way and why that matters. Understand the steps necessary to develop partnerships with other organizations to support your clients to improve health outcomes and increase team collaboration and efficiency.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management; Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This four-part series will provide a foundation for the experience of trauma, highlight the environmental elements that help soothe our nervous system, dive deep into the steps of a trauma-informed design process, and explore opportunities for integrating trauma-informed approaches into housing operations including property management, resident services and building maintenance.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Crisis Intervention; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This pre-recorded webinar is focused on tools and strategies supervisors can implement to support their teams to help to reduce burnout and to provide trauma-informed support to your team members in these challenging times.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar focuses on preventing eviction and working effectively with landlords and tenants.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This 11 module course will equip learners with a clear understanding of the context of modern homelessness and its effect on health; detail the core characteristics of Health Care for the Homeless model of care; and explore ways learners can get involved in the movement to end homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- 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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The Emergency Shelter Learning Series is a collection of webinars and resources from the National Alliance to End Homelessness focused on explaining the philosophy and practice of effective emergency shelter.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- 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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This webinar will feature three panelists in a roundtable discussion about serving individuals with serious mental illness who are experiencing homelessness. Panelists will help dispel myths about homelessness and mental illness, share innovative and culturally responsive models of care, and provide actionable takeaways that participants can use in their work.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- 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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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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar talks about communities that are developing innovative programs to address the needs of people experiencing opioid addiction and, in particular, those who are also experiencing homelessness or housing instability.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This 2016 webinar rebroadcast includes three recordings aimed at educating supportive housing and homeless services providers and systems on the basics on program models in the addiction services sector such as Recovery Support Services, MAT and Addiction treatment.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This introductory course provides foundational information about the neurobiology and prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD), the whole-person care framework and best practices, treatment and recovery supports for OUD, and supporting housing stability for individuals with OUD.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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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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Shelter systems struggle to meet the needs of older unhoused adults and existing housing systems are not designed to support individuals who need assistance with activities of daily living or experience cognitive impairment. Existing community resources for seniors often have age limits that exclude those that could otherwise benefit based on functional need. The lack of adequate shelter, housing, and supportive services results in continued homelessness, and individuals often cycle through services that are not equipped to address their needs. This webinar will present an overview of factors impacting older adults experiencing homelessness and share strategies to support their housing needs.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This course provides practical tips and strategies to enable supportive housing tenants to age in place in supportive housing programs. As tenants age, their needs change. Adaptions and accommodations may be necessary to enable them to continue to live independently in housing. Trainers will explore how supportive housing providers can take a proactive role in planning to meet the changing needs of tenants as they age. Approaches to case management, the importance of building community-based partnerships and connections as well as methods to promote housing stability will be discussed.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This short, self-paced course provides an introduction to strategies to engage older adults in supportive housing. The course will explore the impact of isolation and loneliness on the health and well-being of older adults and how effective engagement strategies can help reduce the impact of isolation and loneliness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This webinar taught housing counselors and housing providers to recognize and respond to consumers affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. This included using trauma-informed approaches for working with and making referrals for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, using an intersectional lens. Webinar participants learned critical information about the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime and other federal resources.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- 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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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; DEIB
- 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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Employment
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Employment
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This webinar, recorded in Aug 2023, focuses on the intersection of housing and child welfare and how Family Unification Program federal housing vouchers can support the well-being and stability of families involved with the child welfare system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Housing Affordability; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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