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The Opening Doors Initiative and our partners develops and shares tools to support the clients and staff of the emergency homelessness response system.

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Several landlords in western Connecticut share their experiences renting to at-risk populations and working with public and private programs that support housing stability.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Landlords
Audience Community Organizations; Residents
Region Fairfield County, CT

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Landlords and property owners play a vital role in supporting tenant stability. For those renting to individuals with lived experience of homelessness, understanding potential challenges is essential to building strong, mutually beneficial relationships.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Homelessness; Landlords
Audience Residents
Region CT

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This session – held in collaboration with the United Way of Greater Waterbury—focused on how rental subsidies work and how landlords can use them to support stable, long-term tenant relationships.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Homelessness; Landlords
Audience Residents
Region CT

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Case Management; Capacity Building
Audience Community Organizations; Residents
Region CT

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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

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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

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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

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Rapid Rehousing
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Diversion
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Diversion
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Diversion
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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Effective diversion has never been more important than during the coronavirus pandemic. This webinar provides an overview of diversion, the best diversion practices, and how communities are implementing diversion to ensure that new federal COVID-19 homelessness resources are most effectively and efficiently targeted. Accompanying slides and resources are linked below.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Diversion; Homelessness
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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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 Homelessness
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Housing Affordability; Homelessness
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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This recorded webinar discusses Moving On (sometimes called “Moving Up”) initiatives that further advance supportive housing as a platform for tenant success by empowering tenants who no longer need or want to live in supportive housing.

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

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This self-paced training is designed to explain the high standards and certification process CSH has established to identify the best, most-effective supportive housing in the country.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Supportive Housing
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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This recorded webinar is designed to share best practices for preventing evictions from single site supportive housing and provides an overview of the importance of housing stability and common risks for instability.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Supportive Housing
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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This recorded webinar focuses on preventing eviction and working effectively with landlords and tenants.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Case Management; Housing Affordability
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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This recorded webinar talks about communities that are developing innovative programs to address the needs of people experiencing opioid addiction and, in particular, those who are also experiencing homelessness or housing instability.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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This webinar taught housing counselors and housing providers to recognize and respond to consumers affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. This included using trauma-informed approaches for working with and making referrals for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, using an intersectional lens. Webinar participants learned critical information about the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime and other federal resources.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Crisis Intervention
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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This recorded webinar covers how to jumpstart a jail in-reach program that effectively identifies and targets those at the highest risk of returning to homelessness and perhaps re-incarceration.

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Employment
Audience Community Organizations; Residents
Region USA

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Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Employment
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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States are increasingly using resources from the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) provided by Medicaid to fund services in supportive housing. HCBS allows individuals to remain at home as they age. This webinar will describe the program's structure and how you can find the funding for tenancy support services in your state's HCBS program. In addition, presenters will share guidance on building partnerships with the HCBS sector at the individual, program, and systems levels.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Supportive Housing; Capacity Building
Audience Community Organizations

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This pre-recorded webinar is focused on tools and strategies supervisors can implement to support their teams to help to reduce burnout and to provide trauma-informed support to your team members in these challenging times.

Initiative Opening Doors
Topic Capacity Building
Audience Community Organizations
Region USA

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