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Along with our partners, ODI develops and shares tools to support the homeless emergency response system, its clients and its staff. Search our comprehensive database, which can be filtered by audience, region, and topic.
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VeteransGuide.org and the 2025 Veterans Affairs Disability Calculator, an initiative by the Disability Advocate Group, LLC, is dedicated to helping U.S. armed forces veterans understand and secure the VA disability compensation they deserve.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Veterans
- Audience Residents
- Region CT; 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
- Media Website
- Region Fairfield County, CT; CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
Policy
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
Research
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Website
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
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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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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
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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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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This self-paced training discusses the Olmstead Decision, defines quality supportive housing, and describes the different models of integrated supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- 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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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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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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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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In this USICH webinar about All In: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, presenters covered the following: The current state of homelessness; The public-input process for developing All In; An overview of All In 's strategies; How USICH will implement All In ; How USICH will measure progress; How communities and partners can use All In.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Collective Impact; Community Organizing
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Employment
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This research outlines how greater progress can be made if nonprofits, government agencies, businesses and the public come together around a common agenda to create collective impact.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media PDF
- Region USA
Advocacy
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This fact sheet illustrates progress made in ending homelessness both state-wide and in Fairfield County in particular. Also, it reflects the work left to do and resources needed to end chronic homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Media PDF
- Region Fairfield County, CT
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