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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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Harm reduction includes a range of policies, programs, and practices that meet vulnerable individuals 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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Leaders from education and youth development talk with elected officials about the relationship of housing and education, as part of the Fairfield County Talks Housing series.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Education; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Webinar
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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Through this video, viewers will learn about domestic violence with a special focus on victims and survivors ages 18-24 years old.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Video
- Region CT
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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 Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- 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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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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This asynchronous Mandated Reporter Training course is designed to provide the most updated information regarding the accurate and prompt identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect. Information regarding DCF's mission and practices are also contained in the training program to enhance participants' global understanding of the child welfare system, as well as community provder staff's role and responsibilities as a mandated reporter.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region CT
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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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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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This asynchronous Mandated Reporter Training course is designed to provide the most updated information regarding the accurate and prompt identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect. Legal requirements and protections for mandated reporters are discussed in detail, as well as consequences for failing to report.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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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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The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act provides for the delivery of services that remove barriers to the enrollment and retention of homeless children and youth in schools. This session will be beneficial and provide information to assist school staff in the liaison role.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Education; Homelessness
- Audience Residents; Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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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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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
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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
- 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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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
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- 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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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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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
- 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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