Resource Library
Deepening CAA Engagement in Homeless Service Delivery – Why it Matters
This session, led by the National Alliance to End Homelessness and Jimmy Jones, the Executive Director of Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency, features examples of how Community Action Agencies can expand their work on solving homelessness, and the impact in can have in meeting both Community Action Agencies’ mission and the goals of homeless service systems.
Effective Coordination: Working Across Service Systems to Impact Homelessness
This session, led by the National Alliance to End Homelessness and Liz Kuoppala, Executive Director of MAHUBE-OTWA Community Action Partnership, provided an overview of effective homeless service systems and the interdependence of interventions and service providers to maximize impact and efficacy. Watch to learn ways Community Action Agencies can enrich and expand upon the services already being provided to at-risk and homeless populations.
Supporting the Work of Rapidly Re-housing People Experiencing Homelessness
This introductory webinar provides an overview of Rapid Re-housing and its role in developing an effective community-wide response to homelessness. We cover the role that Community Action Agencies can play in leading, supporting, and/or augmenting Rapid Re-housing in the jurisdictions they serve. We also explore strategies to increase housing placements while rental markets continue to tighten.
Discover Innovative Community Action Initiatives at Community Action Showcase!
The Center of Excellence is a national training hub, engaging Community Action Agencies coast-to-coast to share innovative, high impact strategies. This platform shines a light on Community Action success stories to inspire. Here you can access resources to strengthen services, build community outcomes, and create family and community change in your local area.
Targeting Homelessness Prevention in the Midst of COVID-19
This webinar examines a variety of innovative Homelessness Prevention practices in the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Join us for insights from our guests Marcy Thompson and Gregory Barchuk of ICF. View this webinar to gain knowledge of the elements of a successful homelessness prevention strategy, approaches to targeting prevention for maximum effectiveness and explore concrete examples of effective approaches to homelessness prevention at the community level.
Preventing Homelessness: Finding Families at Highest Risk
The Partnership held the second webinar in a series examining strategies to prevent homelessness for those who are at the highest risk. This webinar features innovative service providers who are working to identify and support families before they become homeless. Speakers describe how they are working with school districts and public social service programs to support and stabilize families residing in hotels or doubled-up situations who are at risk of entering shelters. Speakers share how they utilize diversion strategies in their homelessness service system to help people identify alternatives to entering shelters.
Centering Racial Equity in Housing Needs with the National Alliance to End Homelessness
The NAEH provided an overview of housing needs with the COVID-19 framework and discussed why race equity is at the center of responses and steps that programs and localities can be taking into account to move toward a more equitable response to homelessness and housing needs, including access to resources, attention to outcomes, understanding of contributing factors.
Aligning Affordable Housing Efforts with Actions to End Homelessness
In many communities, conversations on housing affordability and those about homelessness are happening in different places among different groups of people. The following strategies and resources will support communities in aligning those conversations and will improve progress on preventing and ending homelessness.
Well After Service: Veteran Reintegration and American Communities
Most veterans successfully transition out of uniform and into civilian life. However, some recent veterans face service-related challenges, and there is no government agency, program or mechanism that properly and holistically addresses their wellness. Instead, communities across America, many of which are unfamiliar with the military and service-related needs, are left to support those recent veterans that need assistance reintegrating into civilian life.
CAP Agencies and Balance of State CoCs: Ending Homelessness through Collaboration
CAP agencies play a critical role in ending homelessness nationwide and can be an important partner in Balance of State Continuums of Care. Learn how two Balance of State CoCs are collaborating with CAP agencies in taking a systems approach to ending homelessness in rural areas.
Building a More Resilient Housing System
This report highlights five key themes that were raised in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, TX – moving towards action, the need for community empowerment and education, how to finance housing recovery, the importance of equity, and planning for the future – and key strategies for moving each of these themes forward. The report broadly underscores the need to use Hurricane Harvey to reexamine and improve our systems from preparation and mitigation to response and recovery to long-term development so that we plan intelligently for the future.
Trauma-Informed Organizational Toolkit for Homeless Services
The Toolkit offers homeless service providers with concrete guidelines for how to modify their practices and policies to ensure that they are responding appropriately to the needs of families who have experienced traumatic stress.
Trauma-Informed Care for Displaced Populations
This Guide can be used by community-based organizations that work with families, children, youth, unaccompanied minors, and individuals in various settings (e.g., outpatient settings, mental health, transitional housing programs, shelters, and schools).
Shelter from the Storm: Trauma-Informed Care in Homelessness Services Settings
This paper explores the evidence base for TIC within homelessness service settings, including a review of quantitative and qualitative studies and other supporting literature.