
Prevent and end homelessness among veterans.The Plan defines an end to homelessness as meaning that every community will have a comprehensive response in place that ensures homelessness is prevented whenever possible, or if it cannot be prevented, it is a rare, brief, and non-recurring experience. Preventing and Ending Youth Homelessness: A Coordinated Community Response provides a preliminary vision for a coordinated response to ending youth homelessness.Ī significant achievement by USICH was the launch of Opening Doors - the first comprehensive federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness - in 2010 (amended in 2015).Advancing an End to Youth Homelessness: Federal and National Initiatives highlights some of the significant efforts underway and how they are contributing to local, state, and national progress.Case Studies: Higher Education Partnerships for Ending Unaccompanied Youth Homelessness features innovative programs from institutions of higher education working to help unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness navigate the transition from high school to higher education.Using Homelessness and Housing Needs Data to Tailor and Drive Local Solutions provides an overview of key data sources - including both annual and PIT data - and highlights how communities can strengthen their efforts to address homelessness, housing instability, and other housing needs.

Assessing Whether Your Community Has Achieved the Goal of Ending Youth Homelessness is a resource designed to help communities assess how their strategies compare to best practices.Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Youth Homelessness provides specific criteria and benchmarks for ending unaccompanied youth homelessness.The Challenges We Must Face Together: Findings and Implications from Recent Reports and Data discusses the recent data behind youth homelessness and homelessness in general.The Tools for Action Database is a repository of materials targeted to ending all homelessness, including youth homelessness.The rate of homelessness in each state is calculated using recent U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development during the most recent Point-in-Time (PIT) count. The State Data and Contacts Map shows estimates of people and families experiencing homelessness as reported to the U.S.The following USICH resources may be of particular interest to the runaway and homeless youth community. It has collaborated with communities on the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program and the Youth/Young Adults with Child Welfare Involvement At-Risk of Homelessness grants, as well as supporting the urgent action of communities pursuing aggressive 100-Day Challenge goals and other efforts. One of USICH’s primary goals is to collaborate with federal agencies and local initiatives to end youth homelessness. Individuals can sign up for USICH’s mailing list here. It drives action among 19 federal member agencies, including the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, Commerce, Energy, Homeless Security, Interior, and Justice, among others. executive branch that leads the implementation of the federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) is an independent federal agency within the U.S. This document is a companion to Changes to Coordinated Entry Prioritization to Support and Respond to COVID-19. Untapped Expertise: Strategies for Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement When Developing Your Coordinated Investment Plan discusses considerations for bringing diverse stakeholders into your community’s collaborative planning process.Įquity-Driven Changes to Coordinated Entry Prioritization discusses why, how, and when to make equity-driven changes to coordinated entry.

Rehousing Activation and Racial Equity Part 1: Equity as the Foundation discusses using Racial Equity Impact Assessment s as a way to examine how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by proposed funding decisions, processes, programs, and policies. It is a companion document to A Framework for Homelessness Prevention and Homeless Prevention: Effective and Efficient Prevention Programs.

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Prevention to Promote Equity provides guidance on how to embed principles of equity throughout the design, implementation, and monitoring of targeted prevention activities.
