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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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Hear about our new tools to assist local housing organizations with recruiting new board members, as part of the Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit.

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Capacity Building
Audience Community Organizations
Media Webinar
Region Litchfield County, CT

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
Audience Community Organizations
Media Video
Region CT

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States are increasingly using resources from the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) provided by Medicaid to fund services in supportive housing. HCBS allows individuals to remain at home as they age. This webinar will describe the program's structure and how you can find the funding for tenancy support services in your state's HCBS program. In addition, presenters will share guidance on building partnerships with the HCBS sector at the individual, program, and systems levels.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Supportive Housing; Capacity Building
Audience Community Organizations
Media Webinar

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This recorded webinar discusses best practices for integrating peer specialists into your team. Peer specialists provide lived expertise to help tenants thrive in supportive housing. Peer specialists can play a valuable role in providing services within housing settings. Utilizing persons with lived expertise as part of your services team can help individuals and families thrive.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Capacity Building; Collective Impact
Audience Community Organizations
Media Webinar

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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.

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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.

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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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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 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 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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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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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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This brief document provides tips on how to recruit and interview board members for your affordable housing non-profit.

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Housing Affordability; Capacity Building
Audience Community Organizations
Media PDF
Region Litchfield County, CT

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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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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Capacity Building
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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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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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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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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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.