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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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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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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
- Media PDF
- Region Eastern CT
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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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
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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
- Media Webinar
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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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; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- 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 Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- 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
- 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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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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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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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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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
- Media PDF
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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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
- Media PDF
- Region Eastern CT
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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
- Media PDF
- Region Litchfield County, CT
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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
- Media PDF
- Region Litchfield County, 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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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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach
- 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; Capacity Building
- 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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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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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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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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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Homeless Outreach Webinar: Housing Location and Stabilization
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- 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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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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