United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
No one should experience homelessness. No one should be without a safe, stable place to call home.
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- Steps to Create a Community Strategic Plan
- Developing a Community Strategic Plan Steps 1-3: Organizing Leadership
- Developing a Community Strategic Plan Steps 4-7: Creating the Plan
- Developing a Community Strategic Plan Steps 8-10: Action Plans and Implementation
- Actions to Help Ensure Success of Your Community Strategic Plan
- Performance Measurement of Homeless Systems
- What Gets Measured, Gets Done: A Toolkit on Performance Measurement for Ending Homelessness
- Making the Most of HMIS Data: A Guide to Understanding Homelessness and Improving Programs in Your Community
- Building Knowledge, Effectiveness, and Capacity: Advancing Data on Homelessness in Eleven Communities
- The Community Perspective: Using Research and Technology to Identify Effective Solutions to Prevent and End Homelessness
- Demonstrating the Uses of Homeless Data at the Local Level
- From Intake to Analysis: A Toolkit for Developing a Continuum of Care Data Quality Plan
- Enhancing HMIS Data Quality
- HMIS Self-Assessment Tool
- HMIS Budget and Staffing Toolkit
- Transforming Systems
- HPRP: Opportunities for Systems Transformation and Sustainability
- Centralized Intake for Helping People Experiencing Homelessness
- Homelessness Prevention: Creating Programs that Work
- Rapid Re-Housing: Creating Programs that Work
- Rapid Re-Housing Online Training Series, Parts 1 and 2
- Housing Search Assistance Toolkit
- What is Housing First?
- Organizational Change: Adopting a Housing First Approach
- Crisis Indicator: Triage Tool for Identifying Homeless Adults in Crisis
- 100,000 Homes Campaign Playbook and Toolkit
- One Way In: The Advantages of Introducing System- Wide Coordinated Entry for Homeless Families
- Closing the Front Door: Creating a Successful Diversion Program for Homeless Families
- Prevention Targeting 101
- What is "sustainable" housing cost burden? Implications for HPRP
- Rapid Re-Housing Triage Tool
- Coordinated Assessment Toolkit
- Toolkit for Advancing Systems Change
- Toolkit for Developing and Operating Supportive Housing
- The Supportive Housing Training Series
- Supportive Housing Financing Guide
- Combining Affordable Housing Funding Sources
- Between the Lines: A Question and Answer Guide on Legal Issues in Supportive Housing
- NIMBY Risk Assessment and Decision Tree Tool
- Home Works: Solving Family Homelessness through Permanent Supportive Housing
- Primer on How to Use Medicaid to Assist Persons who are Homeless
- Primer on Understanding Medicaid Home and Community Services
- Report from HHS on Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for the Chronically Homeless
- HHS Tools to Help States Lower Medicaid Costs while Improving Care
- The Business Case for Medicaid-financed Services in Supportive Housing
Tools for Local Action
The toolkits located here each contain a set of resources to help local communities begin or enhance their efforts to prevent and end homelessness. Simply click on the titles to the left to browse through the 7 main topics, where you will find 45 individual resources and guidance. The numbers in the green boxes indicate the number of resources available under each of the 7 main topics.
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