Homelessness Update

Upcoming WEBINAR EXPLOREs THE CONNECTION BETWEEN HOMELESSNESS AND THE OPIOID CRISIS
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Join us, January 11 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST, for a webinar to examine how resources to address the opioid crisis can be leveraged for people experiencing homelessness.

Federal and local officials will discuss what's happening around the country to address the crisis, highlighting a successful housing program for people with opioid use disorders. There will also be a discussion about how service providers can connect with state agencies to elevate issues related to homelessness to the forefront of the opioid crisis.
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New report suggests that Improving Child Welfare Services can Reduce Homelessness
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A new report by the RAND Corporation shows that homelessness and other negative outcomes for children can be reduced by improving child welfare services, and that these investments save money over time. Key findings include:
  • Increasing investment in family preservation services—interventions to help families at risk of child separation—would reduce impacted children’s experience of homelessness as young adults by 2 to 9 percent.
  • Investing in strategies to reduce child maltreatment and improve kinship care (which facilitates placement of children removed from their family of origin with close relatives) reduces children’s risk of homelessness, underemployment, substance abuse, and criminal convictions as young adults. 
Increasing investment in all three approaches to improve child welfare systems—family preservation, preventing child maltreatment, and kinship care—would result in savings of $5.2 to $10.5 billion for a cohort of children born over a five year period, while also improving their later prospects.
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planning your pit count?
check out resources to improve your youth count
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As communities nationwide prepare to conduct 2018 Point-in-Time counts, be sure to check out the following resources for your youth count: 
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from the blog
Ending Homelessness Today
the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness
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Using a Scattered Site Housing First Model to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
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Written by guest blogger, Christine Simiriglia, President and CEO of Pathways to Housing PA. People are dying at an alarming rate. Across the nation, the opioid crisis has communities working overtime in search of solutions. Philadelphia is feeling the effects particularly hard. The city's Kensington neighborhood remains "ground zero" for some of the purest, cheapest […]
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Homeless Person's Memorial Day is a Call to Action
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On the longest night of the year, we remember friends, family members, and neighbors who passed away this year without a home. We remember their smiles and their stories. We recognize their pain and isolation. We remember the fear, discomfort, and the risk of violence that comes with homelessness. As we grieve those we have […]
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We Must Not Lose Momentum on Veteran Homelessness
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Over the past several years, our nation's progress on veteran homelessness has been one of the most important success stories in the effort to end homelessness. But earlier this month, an annual count of homelessness in the U.S. reminded us that the job isn't done, and we can't slow down. According to the 2017 Annual […]
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