Homelessness Newsletter: Why We Do This Work

Alliance Online News View in browser www.endhomelessness.org Wednesday, March 22, 2017 video spotlight Nothing about us, without us Members of the National Youth Forum Share Why They Advocate for homeless youth webinar... 30 Minutes On: Health Care Reform Proposed reforms to health care in the United States could have serious consequences on the most vulnerable people in our communities. There’s a lot at play, and a lot at stake. Learn more about these proposed reforms in 30 Minutes On, a new webinar series hosted by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Corporation for Supportive Housing and National Alliance to End Homelessness. Webinars in this series will be hosted every other Monday at 1 p.m. ET, beginning April 10. Register for the first webinar » share your experience with community services block grants Are you using Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds to support homeless services in your community? If so, let us know by taking this short survey. We want to learn more about the innovative ways communities are using the funds. Interested in learning more about how you can use CSBG funds for rapid re-housing? Read our blog! Take the survey » from the blog Ending Homelessness Today the official blog of the national alliance to end homelessness Georgia Emergency Shelters Take on the Shelter Challenge by Anna Blasco We spent the last few months providing technical assistance to emergency shelters all over Georgia. Our goal was to help them lower barriers in order to make it easier for people to enter shelter — especially for those with nowhere else to go — and develop housing-focused services to make it easier for people to leave shelter and return to permanent housing. We have now kicked off the #GAShelterChallenge – a 90-day push to house as many people as quickly as possible. Read more » comments » | Rapid Re-Housing for Youth: Lessons from the Learning Community by Mindy Mitchell In 2016, the Alliance conducted regular online meeting of providers, system leaders, and technical assistance specialists from around the country in an effort to better understand best practices for using RRH to end youth homelessness. Here's what we've learned. Read more » comments » | Catch up on the RRH Works Campaign by Jen Saunders Throughout our RRH Works campaign, we have heard about the five key strategies for advancing the intervention discussed at the Alliance’s Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) Leadership Summit held in Sept. 2016. Today we are making commitments to scale up RRH in our new document, Rapid Re-Housing Leadership Summit: What We Learned. Did you miss some of the resources during our RRH Works campaign? Here is a wrap-up of the blogs and resources we released during the campaign. Read more » comments » | About Us The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to solving the problem of homelessness and preventing its continued growth. Join Us The Alliance is online: on Facebook, on Twitter, on our blog, and on our website! Join the Alliance's online community, and stay up-to-date with homelessness and housing information. www.endhomelessness.org Forward to a Friend Need Technical Assistance? Visit the Center for Capacity Building to learn more about the ways the Center can help your community end homelessness. Sign The Statement Sign the Never Another Homeless Veteran Statement! »