Advocacy

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The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development is is proposing a drastic and immediate change to the Continuum of Care (CoC) program, the main source of federal funding to help end homelessness in Connecticut. This fact sheet outlines the statewide impact of these changes.

Initiative The Housing Collective; Opening Doors
Topic Homelessness; Supportive Housing
Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
Region 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

Training

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This webinar explores how emergency shelters can be redesigned to support people experiencing homelessness by focusing on housing outcomes. It highlights strategies for creating low-barrier, trauma-informed shelter environments that prioritize safety, dignity, and easy access. The discussion includes how shelters can integrate the voices of people with lived experience and align more closely with permanent housing goals to improve overall system effectiveness.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Shelter; Crisis Intervention; Housing Affordability
Audience Community Organizations; Officials
Region USA

Report

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Collective Impact
Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
Region USA

Training

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This self-paced training is the first part of our supportive housing onboarding series. This short self-paced module introduces supportive housing models, approaches, and components of quality supportive housing.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Supportive Housing
Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
Region USA

Training

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This recorded webinar will help you adopt a low-barrier approach to permanent supportive housing and rapid re-housing. We review how to assess your current coordinated assessment processes as well as individual program applications for criteria that screen out rather than in.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Supportive Housing; Rapid Rehousing
Audience Community Organizations; Officials
Region USA

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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This webinar offers an overview of Section 508 and how to apply web-based standards to the development of documents and websites to enable equal access to information for all persons with sensory impairment.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Accessibility
Audience Community Organizations; Officials
Region CT

Resources

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