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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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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
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The National Alliance to End Homelessness provides toolkits and training materials on Permanent Supportive Housing, a proven solution that combines affordable housing with voluntary support services to help people with chronic homelessness achieve stability and independence. It offers guidance on best practices, implementation, and service coordination.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Region USA
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This presentation includes: Guide Overview, New & Notable Requirements - for all PSH and for Non-DMHAS only, Resources, Q & A.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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This asynchronous Mandated Reporter Training course is designed to provide the most updated information regarding the accurate and prompt identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect. Legal requirements and protections for mandated reporters are discussed in detail, as well as consequences for failing to report.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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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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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
- 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
- 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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Region CT
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Presentation includes: Guide Overview, New & Notable Requirements - for all PSH and for Non-DMHAS only, Resources, Q & A
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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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 webinar focused on increasing access to supportive housing as an option for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This webinar highlighted examples of state efforts to address and dismantle barriers, resulting in increased access to quality, safe, affordable, and supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Accessibility
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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This course provides practical tips and strategies to enable supportive housing tenants to age in place in supportive housing programs. As tenants age, their needs change. Adaptions and accommodations may be necessary to enable them to continue to live independently in housing. Trainers will explore how supportive housing providers can take a proactive role in planning to meet the changing needs of tenants as they age. Approaches to case management, the importance of building community-based partnerships and connections as well as methods to promote housing stability will be discussed.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Supportive Housing; Health
- 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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Building community in supportive housing is essential to helping tenants turn their units into homes where they can thrive. Join us for a special free webinar with trainer Amiyoko Shabazz, CSH Speak Up! Advocate and tenant in supportive housing to learn strategies to work collaboratively with tenants to build community in your program and connect with the larger community.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
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