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Learning Community Workgroups
Transition/Discharge Planning
"Preventing
and Resolving Chronic Homelessness Through
Successful Transitions and Effective Discharge Planning"
September 28-29, 2006 | Philadelphia, PA
Workgroup Objectives
- Understand how policy and regulatory issues impact discharge planning
from various systems – including criminal justice, health, behavioral
health, and foster care – and identify policies that have been adopted
to ensure that people are not discharged into homelessness
- Identify common barriers/challenges within and across systems to
implementing discharge policies effectively and linking people to needed
housing, health care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, income
support/entitlement assistance, employment, and other needed services
or supports
- Learn about promising practices that have been implemented to support
discharge policies and key success strategies
- Identify the partnerships, funding, and resources that are needed
to implement effective policies and practices to prevent homelessness
across systems in your State.
Specifically, Workgroup participants identified barriers and challenges,
discussed policy and regulatory issues, and offered strategies. Participants
also identified promising practices around: (1) Housing options
and access, (2) Coordination and linkage to services, (3) Collaboration
and partnerships, and (4) Funding and accountability.
The following topics emerged as areas of interest throughout the Workgroup
meeting and were addressed in peer-led roundtables: Pilot Projects,
Coordination/Collaboration, Continuity of Services, Identification,
Cultural/Rural, Data, One Stops, and Reinvesting Savings.
States in Attendance
Alaska (AK), Arkansas (AR), Delaware (DE), Florida (FL), Hawaii (HA),
Kansas (KS), Maine (ME), Maryland (MD), Montana (MT), New Hampshire
(NH), Ohio (OH), Oklahoma (OK), Oregon (OR), Utah (UT), Virginia (VA),
Washington (WA), and Wisconsin (WI).
Workgroup Documents,
Resources and Links >>
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