Homelessness Update

Alliance Online News View in browser www.endhomelessness.org Wednesday, April 19, 2017 spotlight on... Have you looked at your Emergency Shelter lately? ​ Emergency shelters play a critical role when it comes to ending homelessness. Starting next week, the Capacity Building Center at the Alliance will share the latest resources, guidance, and fundamentals each month for strengthening emergency shelters’ role in a system that ends homelessness. The Commonwealth of Virginia is already on board! It’s taking on the challenge of transforming emergency shelter systems across its crisis response system. Follow the challenge at #shifthappens. Register for the April 26 kick-off webinar » What words do you use? It’s critical that voices around the mission to end homelessness be heard in Washington and across our communities. Are you using the right messages? Watch our videos for tips on what to say when making presentations to funders and elected officials. And take a look at a new report from Enterprise Community Partners and the FrameWorks Institute on what works, and what doesn’t when it comes to messaging around the mission. Read the report » Join the rapid re-housing for youth learning community Want to learn more about rapid re-housing for youth? Join our Learning Community! Sign up for the kick-off webinar tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. ET, and hear from experienced youth rapid re-housing providers about how to tailor this intervention for young people experiencing homelessness.  Register » the future of medicaid expansion If the Affordable Care Act is repealed and Medicaid expansion ends, how will this impact the people your agency serves? Join us for the second in our series of 30-minute webinars on health care reform. Register » from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness What's Next In Congress? by Steve Berg After an intense first three months, Congress is in a two-week recess. When they return, they’ll face an April 28 deadline to keep the government funded and open. Below is a run-down of the items that will or may be on Congress’s upcoming agenda that could have an impact on work to end homelessness. Here is what’s coming up now, and what you can do. Read more » comments » | Last call! Congress is finalizing FY17 funding bills. How will homelessness assistance fare? by Steve Berg It looks like the Appropriations Committees have a green light to put together a final omnibus spending bill for FY2017. That means that House and Senate staffers are meeting, probably right now, to iron out differences between their bills and take the latest spending data into account. We need you to call their offices today. Read more » comments » | Georgia Emergency Shelters Take on the Shelter Challenge by Anna Blasco We spent the last few months providing technical assistance to emergency shelters all over Georgia. Our goal was to help them lower barriers in order to make it easier for people to enter shelter — especially for those with nowhere else to go — and develop housing-focused services to make it easier for people to leave shelter and return to permanent housing. We have now kicked off the #GAShelterChallenge – a 90-day push to house as many people as quickly as possible. 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.