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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 toolkit provides examples of messages you can use to build more public support for affordable housing in Litchfield County, and guidance about how to deliver those messages in your community.

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach; Community Organizing
Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
Region Litchfield County, CT

Advocacy

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LCCHO and national systems change experts TheCaseMade developed a playbook to help advocates build more support for affordable housing by changing how they make their case.

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach; Community Organizing
Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
Region Litchfield County, CT

Advocacy

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CHEO and national systems change experts TheCaseMade developed a playbook to help advocates build more public support for affordable housing by improving the way they make their case.

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach
Audience Officials; Residents
Region Eastern CT

Advocacy

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This toolkit provides examples of messages you can use to build more public support for affordable housing in Eastern Connecticut, and guidance about how to deliver those messages in your community.

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach; Community Organizing
Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
Region Eastern CT

Advocacy

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FCCHO and national systems change experts TheCaseMade developed a playbook to help advocates build more public support for affordable housing by improving the way they make their case.

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Outreach
Audience Officials; Residents
Region Fairfield County, CT

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While communities strive towards providing permanent housing for all who need it, they are still faced with serving the existing unsheltered population, prompting the question: “What do we do in the meantime?” The strategies in this document explain how communities might respond in these situations.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Shelter; Crisis Intervention; Homelessness; Outreach
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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The CT Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services (DMHAS) Latino Outreach Program provides regional community outreach services designed to reduce the stigma that surrounds substance use in the Latino community. Latino Outreach workers provide informational sessions and training in traditional settings such as social service agencies as well as non-traditional settings within the Latino community to raise awareness on overdose prevention and substance use programs.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Substance Abuse; Outreach
Audience Community Organizations; Residents
Region Fairfield County, CT; CT

Training

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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
Region USA

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Outreach; Homelessness; Crisis Intervention
Audience Community Organizations; Residents
Region CT

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This resource from the National Alliance to End Homelessness outlines a Housing-Focused Street Outreach Framework designed to help communities engage people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. It provides strategies for connecting individuals to permanent housing quickly and effectively through person-centered outreach, case management, and system coordination.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Homelessness; Outreach
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

Advocacy

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Learn about our new playbook designed to help you change the conversation on affordable housing, as part of the Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit.

Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
Topic Housing Affordability; Outreach
Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
Region Litchfield County, CT

Training

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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
Region CT

Training

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Homeless Outreach Webinar: Housing Location and Stabilization

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Outreach; Homelessness
Audience Community Organizations
Region CT

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Outreach
Audience Community Organizations
Region CT

Training

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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
Region CT

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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
Region CT

Training

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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.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Youth; Outreach
Audience Officials; Residents
Region USA

Training

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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
Region USA

Training

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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
Region CT

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Outreach
Audience Community Organizations
Region CT

Training

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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
Region USA

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