Keys to Effective Emergency Shelter

spotlight on... Learn the Keys to Effective Emergency Shelter The Alliance’s Emergency Shelter Learning Series features videos, infographics and other resources to help your shelter transition to a housing-focused and low-barrier model. Experts and shelter operators from across the country explore the basics of low-barrier shelter, plus specific topics like serving survivors of domestic violence and complying with HUD’s Equal Access Rule. The latest in the series highlights best practices for making shelters accessible to people and their pets or service animals. Read More » Webinar: Broadening the Housing Movement Next week, the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign will host a webinar to convene organizations working to address our nation’s affordable housing crisis. Opportunity Starts at Home is mobilizing people in the fields of education, health care, civil rights, economic justice, and homelessness to call for national action on housing. To learn more about the campaign and how your organization can contribute, register for the webinar. Webinar: Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. ET Register » USICH Announces New Coordinated Strategy: Home, Together The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness recently launched Home, Together, a new coordinated strategy to end homelessness in America. The strategy outlines policies that will be employed at the federal level to support and accelerate state and local progress on homelessness. It covers the broad range of health, community, and homeless services interventions that must work together to end homelessness for all the diverse populations affected by it. Read More » from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness Addressing Racial Disparities Among People Experiencing Homelessness: Start with Data by Chandra Crawford This post is co-authored by the Alliance’s Chandra Crawford, Program and Policy Analyst; and Mindy Mitchell, Director, Individual Homeless Adults. It is part of a series to support communities as they work on their 2018 NOFA applications. You can see previous entries here and here. Data from across the country show that Native Americans and […] The post Addressing Racial Disparities Among People Experiencing Homelessness: Start with Data appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | What Can We Learn From New York City's Work to End Unsheltered Homelessness? by Sharon McDonald This post is part of Unsheltered, an Alliance blog series to exploring the crisis of unsheltered homelessness in the United States. You can catch up on the whole series here. In 2017, New York City unveiled an aggressive new plan to address homelessness. The plan, Turning the Tide on Homelessness, includes a renewed focus on ending […] The post What Can We Learn From New York City's Work to End Unsheltered Homelessness? appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | Key Takeaways from #NAEH2018 by Steve Berg Thanks once again to everyone who came to the National Conference on Ending Homelessness, and to the many more who followed the action on Twitter or watched speeches on Facebook Live. Here are my key takeaways: People working to end homelessness are clearer than ever about what it will take. To permanently end homelessness, there […] The post Key Takeaways from #NAEH2018 appeared first on National Alliance to End Homelessness. Read more » comments » | About Us The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. 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.