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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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While communities strive towards providing permanent housing for all who need it, they are still faced with serving the existing unsheltered population, prompting the question: “What do we do in the meantime?” The strategies in this document explain how communities might respond in these situations.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shelter; Crisis Intervention; Homelessness; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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Welcome Home, Neighbor supports property partners to operate profitable rental properties while removing barriers for our neighbors to regain safe and stable homes in their community.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Diversion
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
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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
- Media Website
- Region USA
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The Trump administration will increase the use of raids and other enforcement actions conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”). This document, prepared by the National Homelessness Law Center and Crowell & Moring LLP, outlines what homeless shelters and other public service providers can do from a practical level to best protect clients and staff before, during, and after a raid.
- Initiative Opening Doors; Opening Doors Northwest Connecticut; Opening Doors Fairfield County
- Topic Homelessness; Community Organizing; Immigration
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media PDF
- Region Eastern CT; Fairfield County, CT; Northwest CT; Litchfield County, CT; CT; USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- Region CT
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This recorded webinar is designed to convey how community-wide targeting and identification of vulnerable people and also an emphasis on convenience, cooperation and collaboration in the delivery of services can end chronic homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Community Organizing; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Employment; Homelessness; Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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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.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
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People experiencing homelessness face unique challenges and barriers that complicate and intensify in disaster situations. Planning for disaster response is essential for people experiencing homelessness who have behavioral health conditions and the providers that serve them. Join this webinar to learn how to start planning for disaster response and to hear from one community well versed in these situations.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Shelter systems struggle to meet the needs of older unhoused adults and existing housing systems are not designed to support individuals who need assistance with activities of daily living or experience cognitive impairment. Existing community resources for seniors often have age limits that exclude those that could otherwise benefit based on functional need. The lack of adequate shelter, housing, and supportive services results in continued homelessness, and individuals often cycle through services that are not equipped to address their needs. This webinar will present an overview of factors impacting older adults experiencing homelessness and share strategies to support their housing needs.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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There has been an increase in older adults entering our homeless response system with mental health conditions. This training will highlight some of the root causes of homelessness for the older adult population and review common mental health conditions that they experience. Services and supports that homeless service providers can use to support their clients will also be thoroughly reviewed.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar will highlight different models of medical respite care and approaches to providing high-quality behavioral health services. Program representatives will discuss issues related to addressing stigma and training staff, and participants will learn more about the model’s whole-person care approach. This will be an interactive webinar that will allow ample time for questions, answers, and discussion.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar will explore strategies for reducing, mitigating, and responding to behavioral health emergencies involving individuals experiencing homelessness. The featured panelists will discuss cross-sector provider coordination and integration and best practices for effectively responding to crisis situations. They will also provide community examples of cross-sector coordination to improve health outcomes, and offer tangible approaches to ensuring comprehensive, culturally responsive services.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Part of the Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar explores the role emergency shelter plays within the homeless response system’s coordinated strategy to safely and appropriately divert households from shelter. It explains why problem-solving conversations don’t end at Coordinated Entry.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Diversion; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This 11 module course will equip learners with a clear understanding of the context of modern homelessness and its effect on health; detail the core characteristics of Health Care for the Homeless model of care; and explore ways learners can get involved in the movement to end homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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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 Housing Affordability; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Working with people who have experienced homelessness who are temporarily placed in hotels/motels.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Homeless Outreach Webinar: Housing Location and Stabilization
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Targetted to new PATH Outreach Workers in CT: A framework for doing outreach work with people experiencing homelessness
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This session will help participants understand the basics of Coordinated Entry and how to connect people to housing and housing-related resources in the homeless response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- 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
- Media Webinar
- 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
- Media Webinar
- 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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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 recorded webinar is designed to explain how housing authorities have the ability to create two key resources that can alter the landscape of homeless assistance and create more housing opportunities/resources for vulnerable households.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Homelessness; Housing Affordability
- 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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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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