NHSDC Conference Presentation - Serving High Acuity Participants in RRH
This conference presentation explored how communities can effectively serve high-acuity households through Rapid Rehousing, covering system-level strategies, program design considerations, data-informed practices, and lessons learned from providers implementing these approaches.
CoC Compliance Intake Documentation and Client File Management Training
This training helps CoC staff strengthen intake and file management practices by exploring common documentation errors, practicing how to identify and correct them, and sharing strategies to prevent issues before they occur.
Managing Uncertainty for CoCs and Homeless Services Providers Toolkit
This report outlines strategies for CoCs and homeless response providers to manage uncertainty, including processing new information, communicating with clients using trauma-informed principles, and adapting grants and budgets.
Impacts of Criminalizing Homelessness
These fact sheets show the impact of local laws that criminalize people living outside.
Partnership Action Lab
The Partnership Action Lab brought together homelessness systems and public defenders to improve outcomes for people who are experiencing housing instability and charged with and/or convicted of misdemeanors.
Bridging Boundaries Action Lab
The Bridging Boundaries Action Lab brought together parole, probation, and homelessness systems to reduce barriers to housing for people involved with the criminal legal system.
Advancing Anti-Criminalization Efforts: Protecting the rights of people experiencing homelessness
This webinar co-hosted by Homebase and Destination: Home was designed to empower and educate Santa Clara County service providers, advocates, and community members about the legal rights of people experiencing homelessness, especially those affected by encampment sweeps and vehicle tows. The training also included information about reasonable accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities experiencing homelessness.
Disrupting the Cycle: Public Housing Authorities Advancing Justice Through Housing
This session at the NAHRO National Conference explored the role PHAs can play in breaking the homelessness-criminal legal system cycle by implementing trauma-informed, low-barrier policies.
PHAs and the Criminalization of Homelessness
This session at the Northern California Nevada National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) conference focused on the Grants Pass decision, why it matters for Public Housing Authorities and other housing providers, and what providers can do to help protect their clients while responding to an ever-changing legal landscape.
Disrupting the Homelessness-Criminal Legal System Cycle through Strategic Partnerships
This session at the NAEH conference was led by homelessness system leaders with experience with building partnerships focused on high impact intervention points – pre-sentencing (public defenders) and post-release (probation).
Shifting the Narrative: A data-driven, person-centered approach to combating the criminalization of homelessness
This workshop at the National Human Services Data Consortium outlined how to leverage lived experience expertise to assess gaps in legal services and inform the creation of legal clinics for people experiencing homelessness.
Getting Creative with Funding: Leveraging criminal legal system funds for housing and supportive services
This conference session at Housing California focused on strategies for how CoCs can work with criminal legal system partners to leverage AB 109 funds for housing dedicated to people with criminal records.
Where are they supposed to sleep? Leveraging Critical Public Defender Data in Non-Carceral Homeless Responses
This session at the Equal Justice Conference focused on how to facilitate partnerships between public defenders and the Continuum of Care to leverage resources, prevent collateral consequences, and mitigate criminal legal outcomes.
The Fair Housing Act and CA Fair Employment and Housing Act
A training on federal and California state fair housing protections.
Using Criminal Records for Effective Case Management
A training on record clearance and advocating for clients with criminal records.
Expungement and Clearing Criminal Records
A training on criminalization ordinances and the role of clearing criminal records to expand housing access.
Meeting the Housing Needs of People with Criminal Records
A training focused on understanding and reducing housing barriers for people with criminal records.
Toolkit for Street Medicine Programs: Collaborating with Homeless Response Continuums of Care (CoCs)
This Toolkit contains information for Street Medicine providers to better understand their local homeless response Continuums of Care and opportunities to collaborate for the benefit of patients experiencing homelessness.
Health and Homelessness Community of Practice
Learn about Homebase, Connecting for Better Help, and Georgetown University's Massive Data Institute's Community of Practice, designed to help California CoCs, Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans, and their partners overcome data sharing challenges.
Lessons Learned from CalAIM: Enacting California's New Housing-Related Services for People Experiencing Homelessness
This webinar provides an overview of key lessons learned from California’s CalAIM housing-related services - Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports - and the Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program. It includes a panel of four partners – from Alameda, Fresno/Madera, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara counties – sharing their diverse perspectives on successes and challenges in implementing California’s housing-related Medicaid programs for people experiencing homelessness.