Technical Assistance to Improve the Delivery of Homelessness Programs

• Creating or updating strategic plan to end homelessness.
• Developing policies and procedures for setting basic and uniform expectations for the local Coordinated Entry System.
• Increasing HMIS participation rate or coverage regardless of the funding source throughout the service area.
• Developing policies and procedures to effectively conduct a Point-in-Time (PIT) counts for subpopulations that pose unique challenges in the PIT process, such as youth experiencing homelessness.
• Assistance understanding available federal funding resources and developing a plan to access resources.
• Assistance developing comprehensive plans to maximize impact of existing resources.
• Designing tools or guidance to address specific challenges related to ending homelessness and developing long-term housing and community development solutions.
• Assistance implementing the coordinated entry system.
• Assistance evaluating the coordinated entry system.
• Review of existing CoC governance structure and propose revisions.
• Developing system wide written standards.
• Development of a system map to right size outreach, prevention, diversion, rapid rehousing and Permanent Supportive Housing.
• Assistance creating CoC monitoring tools and protocols.
• Understanding the role of rapid rehousing in the CoC.

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for Capacity Building

• Developing policies and procedures to convert existing emergency shelters to a low-barrier or Housing First emergency shelters.
• Developing policies and procedures to adopt and incorporate the core components of Housing First for all homelessness funded programs.
• Developing policies and procedures to improve or establish a diversion strategy to prevent homelessness or reduce the demand for shelter beds.

• Establishing or improving rates of exits from homelessness into permanent housing.
• Developing written standards, policies, or procedures to assist rapid rehousing funded programs move individuals and families into permanent housing. This may include assisting rapid rehousing programs to align with widely accepted practices in a standardized way across a CoC service area and assistance in increasing utilization and expenditure rates of existing rapid rehousing resources.
• Establishing or improving innovative solutions to engage landlords and identify creative housing solutions in challenging rental markets. This may include developing a flexible housing subsidy program, Whole Person Care Program increasing voucher utilization, housing navigator training or recruitment strategy etc.