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Best Practices: A practical newsletter for people ending homelessness.

Best Practices A practical newsletter for people ending homelessness. Pets Can Be a Barrier — or an Open Door — to Ending an Individual's Homelessness Engaging and serving people with service animals and pets is a key strategy for ending homelessness. Providing resources for pets can lead often to a breakthrough in building rapport with unsheltered individuals and helping them find shelter and housing. A new Alliance blog post explains how homeless service systems can connect people with resources for their animals and why shelters should be equipped to safely welcome people and their pets. A new profile of Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa explains how their shelter ramped up to accommodate service animals and eventually pets. The Alliance is Hiring: Congressional Relations Specialist The Alliance is hiring a Congressional Relations Specialist to help develop and lead our efforts to build support for key federal homelessness priorities. Read More and Apply» From the Alliance Blog The Day 1 Fund: Who Will It Serve and What Will It Do? By Nan Roman Pets Can Be a Barrier — or an Open Door — to Ending an Individual's Homelessness By Kristi Schulenberg Strategies for Ending Youth Homelessness in Rural Areas By Mindy Mitchell Moving On From the Midterms: Four Takeaways for the New Congress By Steve Berg Featured Alliance Resource There Are Only Enough Permanent Housing Placements for About One-Third of Families That Experience Homelessness Annually Facebook Twitter endhomelessness.org Is Your Community Ending Homelessness? The Alliance's Center for Capacity Building offers training and technical assistance for providers and community leaders. To learn more, email thecenter@naeh.org.