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The Housing Collective and our partners develop and deliver tools to help planners, policymakers, service providers, and citizens advance housing solutions in Connecticut.
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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
- Region USA
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This guide will demonstrate how to hold a successful onboarding or orientation meeting for new board members at your affordable housing non-profit.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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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
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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Public Act No. 24-143 went into effect on October 1, 2024. It amends a general statute and clarifies how to calculate property taxes for 100% designated affordable housing developments.
- Initiative Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Capacity Building
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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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
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Region CT
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SOAR (SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery) is a program through SAMHSA designed to help individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness—and who also have serious mental illness, medical impairments, or co-occurring substance use disorders—gain access to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). It accomplishes this by training case managers, offering technical assistance, and facilitating inter-agency coordination to improve application approval rates and speed.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Capacity Building; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This toolkit is intended to help local housing non-profits identify funding sources and strategies to meet their specific funding needs.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region Litchfield County, 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
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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
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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
- 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
- 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
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Education
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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