Cross-System Collaboration: Homelessness Response and Public Workforce

2022

Just as the public workforce system is not designed or equipped to address the housing needs of people experiencing homelessness, homelessness response programs are not designed or equipped to comprehensively address the employment needs of unstably housed job seekers. Coordination is critical to leverage both systems' resources to better serve people and to improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness as well as the systems designed to support them.