Tools for Action

We review the documents in our database every six months to make sure they are still accurate and relevant.

Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Veteran Homelessness

These criteria and benchmarks, updated in February 2017, will help you build lasting solutions to Veteran homelessness in your community.

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Enhancing Coordinated Entry through Partnerships with Mainstream Resources and Programs

Coordinated entry is key to the effective and cost effective use of federal, state, and local resources. We developed this companion guide for communities to reference while implementing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Notice requirements around coordinated entry that Continuums of Care must be able to meet by January 23, 2018. 

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Strategies to Address the Intersection of the Opioid Crisis and Homelessness

This document identifies strategies that communities, providers, and policymakers can use to address the intersection of homelessness and the opioid crisis and highlights resources developed by federal and national partners to support such efforts.

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HUD’s Notice on Requirements for Coordinated Entry

Coordinated entry is key to the effective and cost effective use of federal, state, and local resources. HUD's Notice, released in January 2017, outlines the requirements around coordinated entry that Continuums of Care must be able to meet by January 23, 2018. 
 

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Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Family Homelessness

Collaboratively with communities across America, USICH and our federal partners developed a national vision for what it means to end homelessness, ensuring it is rare, brief, and non-recurring. The Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Family homelessness ensure all communities are working towards that goal. 

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Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Youth Homelessness

Collaboratively with communities across America, USICH and our federal partners developed a national vision for what it means to end homelessness, ensuring it is rare, brief, and non-recurring. The Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Youth Homelessness ensure all communities are working towards that goal. 

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Driving Progress Toward Ending Homelessness in America and the Work Ahead

Through the implementation of Opening Doors, communities across America have seen steady progress in ending homelessness. This fact sheets provides a summary of that progress, the strategies that have been working, and the work still left to be done to make sure every American has a safe and stable platform on which to pursue and succeed at their goals. 

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Ending Homelessness: Our Progress, Essential Strategies, and the Work Ahead

These fact sheets provide overviews on the progress we've made across the country on each population under the goals of Opening Doors, and offers essential strategies for the work ahead. 

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Setting the Course for the Work Ahead: Findings and Implications from Recent Reports and Data

Data is central to all the decisions we make as a Council to advance progress toward ending homelessness in our country. 

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Disaster Recovery Homelessness Toolkit

HUD's Disaster Recovery Homelessness Toolkit is designed help communities better address the needs of people experiencing homelessness, and other vulnerable populations, during a disaster. 

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