Resources

Housing advocates have worked in isolation for too long. It's time to stop reinventing the wheel!

The resources here are intended to help you learn from other communities who may already have solved the challenges your community faces. Take advantage of the search options below to identify tips, tricks, new innovations and helpful tools.

Establishing a Unified Homeless System

This tool addresses nearly all of the nineteen factors the campaign believes are correlated with higher housing placement rates and provides guidance on how to begin the process of developing a unified system. For this reason, it will be helpful to use this tool as a starting point in your community’s quality improvement efforts.
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Fully Committed List

Every month, we release a list of communities who are Fully Committed, meaning they have reported their housing placements (or lack thereof) to the Campaign consistently for the last three months. This list also includes the 2.5 Percent Club, which is an elite group of communities that are demonstrably on track to end homelessness in the next four years. Is your community Fully Committed?

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HUD Memo Re: Housing Choice Voucher Set-Asides

This January 2013 memo provides guidance from HUD on how PHAs are to operationalize the “setting aside” of vouchers in the Housing Choice Voucher program for specific target populations like chronic and vulnerable homeless individuals. It makes clear that set-asides must be created as local preferences for target groups, can be limited in quantity, and must be offered to those on the existing waiting list. Communities that continue to work with their PHAs to secure preferences should be aware of this distinction.
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Volunteer Training Powerpoint - Registry Week

A thorough sample powerpoint from Suburban Cook County, IL to help you train volunteers to participate in your Registry Week. This slideshow can be downloaded and directly adapted for use with volunteers in your local community!
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Monthly Housing Placement Tracker

This Excel template allows you to more easily track monthly housing placements across providers. 

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Reporting Housing Placements Using QuickBase

Did you know it was possible to report your monthly housing placements directly from QuickBase? This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to do so. 

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Nineteen High Performance Factors

The 100,000 Homes Campaign team identified a cohort of 19 factors that we believe may be correlated with higher housing placement rates across campaign communities. The purpose of the High Performance Series of tools is to spotlight best practices and expand the movement’s peer support network by sharing this knowledge with every community. This list debuts and discusses the nineteen factors we uncovered in our qualitative study of communities and best practices across the country.
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Ten Attributes of Thriving Teams

Becky Kanis and Christine Marge of the Social Change Agency have compiled a document outlining the ten characteristics of a thriving team. Use this document to consider how best to build your local team and how to structure your team dynamic. A thriving team must function well personally AND professionally. This document can help!
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Partnering with the VA and Accessing HUD-VASH

This tool addresses high performance factors #1 and #2, with a specific focus on the Department of Veterans Affairs: Evidence of strong personal relationships among key stakeholders and one or two influential advocates or “champions” in the community dedicated to ending homelessness.

Item two is a worksheet to be used with this tool.

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Funding and Integrating a Local Campaign Coordinator

This tool addresses high performance factor #6: The local campaign team has an individual person or committee responsible for ensuring that people on the Vulnerability List and/or chronically homeless are housed.
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