As data sharing between sectors becomes more widespread, it is important for homelessness response systems and providers to consider the ramifications of providing data to law enforcement. This brief provides an overview of existing privacy laws that protect people’s personal information, covers the risks of sharing homelessness data with law enforcement, and offers immediate steps that Continuums of Care (CoCs) and service providers can take to strengthen protections for participants.

Communities across the country are resisting the criminalization of homelessness. Evidence shows that criminalization is costly and counterproductive. This memo provides some background and steps communities can take to avoid these harmful policies.

This brief provides an overview of the history of civil commitments and the risks that they pose and offers immediate steps to advocate for individualized and voluntary care for individuals experiencing severe mental illness.

This webinar provides an overview of California's newest housing-related Medicaid service, Transitional Rent. Learn the basics of this unprecedented new resource in a digestible way and walk away with a better understanding of the key opportunities ahead.

With a focus on rural and suburban Continuums of Care (CoCs), this framework explores the idea of broadening community partnerships, responding to data, and expanding resource options to achieve an end to homelessness for multiple populations at once and sustain the achievements over time.

These guides are designed to help communities, Continuums of Care (CoCs), and homeless service providers address and improve key aspects of the homelessness system of care. They provide evidence-based, practical approaches for increasing employment income, securing permanent housing, preventing first-time homelessness, reducing time spent homeless, and preventing returns to homelessness.

Faith-based organizations (FBOs) can make a tremendous difference in a community’s success in preventing and ending homelessness. FBOs bring a perspective and resources that are not otherwise available to the homeless system of care. This guide offers potential strengths of FBO partnerships, along with opportunities for FBOs to support homelessness response and strategies homeless systems can employ to support these partnerships.

This checklist, to be completed by program leadership, is designed to help program leaders identify local partners who can help people experiencing homelessness find jobs, increase their income, and improve their employment opportunities.

This toolkit supports leaders of homeless systems of care to connect with representatives of faith-based organizations through new and expanded partnerships.

People returning home to rural areas from incarceration face unique challenges. Transportation issues, limited services options, stigma, and a lack of affordable housing can make it challenging for those reentering the community to find a safe and stable place to live. This tool outlines strategies that rural communities can undertake to meaningfully address homelessness for individuals involved with the criminal justice system.

Recruiting and retaining an effective behavioral health workforce ensures consistent quality care for people experiencing mental health concerns, people living with substance use disorders, and people experiencing homelessness. This toolkit addresses recruitment and support for people with lived experiences, preventing and addressing staff turnover, and operationalizing recruitment and retention of an effective workforce.

An interview with Nicole Green, Forensic Social Worker, Office of the Public Defender, and Chair of the Contra Costa Community Advisory Board (CAB).

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners offers a list of the recommendations developed by Homebase, California CoC representatives, and some key provider partners. These are intended to facilitate improved collaboration toward full and effective ECM and Community Supports implementation.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners provides a reference list of California’s CoCs by county.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners is intended to help counties, CoCs, and local homeless response system partners better understand what MCPs are likely to invest in and prioritize to address the housing and health needs of their Medi-Cal members experiencing homelessness.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners provides an overview of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM), a recent Medi-Cal initiative that seeks to improve the health of Californians.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners provides information about how DHCS defines Street Medicine for purposes of Medi-Cal coverage so CoCs can discuss street medicine needs, programs, and coordination opportunities with their local MCPs with this critical context in mind.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners presents a simple workflow that CoCs and MCPs can use to accomplish this kind of client data match, as well as a list of recommended data elements to include in the matching process.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners identifies data elements that are valuable for cross-sector data sharing that can better enable partners to work in a more coordinated and collaborative fashion.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners is a sample bi-lateral data sharing agreement (DSA) that is meant to help cross-sector partners identify the common components of a DSA between Continuum of Care (CoC) agencies responsible for HMIS data and Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs).