Homelessness Update

Alliance Online News View in browser www.endhomelessness.org Wednesday, October 19, 2016 video spotlight Rapid Re-Housing Can End Homelessness Get involved with the Rapid Re-Housing Works campaign at endhomelessness.org/rrhworks. alliance events Prepare for the 2017 youth PIT Count Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 2 p.m. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced that 2017 will be the baseline year for using Point-in-Time data to track progress towards ending youth homelessness. Is your community prepared? Join Applied Survey Research and Chapin Hall Voices of Youth Count as they discuss planning and implementation of effective youth counts. Register » register for the 2017 family and youth conference On a single night last year, nearly 65,000 families were experiencing homelessness in the United States. The Alliance is gathering leaders from across the country to work toward an end to homelessness for families and youth. The conference will be held Feb 23-24, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Register here » Has your community applied for the youth demonstration program? There are only a few weeks left for communities to apply for the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP). Make sure yours is one of them. Why apply? Because the work done in this program will help our country move closer to effectively ending youth homelessness by the Opening Doors goal of 2020. Applications are due November 30.  Apply now » from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness This work is hard. It's boring. And, we're moving too damn slow. by Guest Blogger, Kelly King Horne, Homeward (Richmond, VA) The Alliance asked me to share why a gathering like the Rapid Re-Housing Leadership Summit matters. At Homeward, I talk about homelessness a lot and why data-driven collaboration matters, but today I want to share three reasons why pulling people from across the country together to think about taking rapid re-housing to scale, matters. Read more » comments » | Continuing a movement that's Built for Zero by Jayme Day Here are some things Steve Berg and Jayme Day learned at the Zarrow Mental Health Symposium. Read more » comments » | Rapid Re-Housing Leadership Summit: What did we learn and where do we go from here? by Jen Saunders In September the National Alliance to End Homelessness convened nearly 100 rapid re-housing champions from around the country to develop a common vision about how we can advance rapid re-housing and discuss emerging knowledge, research and practice on the model. Today we are launching Rapid Re-Housing Works, a campaign that will run through January and focus on the fundamentals of rapid re-housing as well as fresh thinking around adoption and implementation. Read more » comments » | About Us The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to solving the problem of homelessness and preventing its continued growth. Join Us The Alliance is online: on Facebook, on Twitter, on our blog, and on our website! Join the Alliance's online community, and stay up-to-date with homelessness and housing information. www.endhomelessness.org Forward to a Friend Need Technical Assistance? Visit the Center for Capacity Building to learn more about the ways the Center can help your community end homelessness. Sign The Statement Sign the Never Another Homeless Veteran Statement! »