Tools for Action

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Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Family Homelessness

Collaboratively with communities across America, USICH and our federal partners developed a national vision for what it means to end homelessness, ensuring it is rare, brief, and non-recurring. The Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Family homelessness ensure all communities are working towards that goal. 

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Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Youth Homelessness

Collaboratively with communities across America, USICH and our federal partners developed a national vision for what it means to end homelessness, ensuring it is rare, brief, and non-recurring. The Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Youth Homelessness ensure all communities are working towards that goal. 

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Driving Progress Toward Ending Homelessness in America and the Work Ahead

Through the implementation of Opening Doors, communities across America have seen steady progress in ending homelessness. This fact sheets provides a summary of that progress, the strategies that have been working, and the work still left to be done to make sure every American has a safe and stable platform on which to pursue and succeed at their goals. 

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Ending Homelessness: Our Progress, Essential Strategies, and the Work Ahead

These fact sheets provide overviews on the progress we've made across the country on each population under the goals of Opening Doors, and offers essential strategies for the work ahead. 

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Setting the Course for the Work Ahead: Findings and Implications from Recent Reports and Data

Data is central to all the decisions we make as a Council to advance progress toward ending homelessness in our country. 

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Disaster Recovery Homelessness Toolkit

HUD's Disaster Recovery Homelessness Toolkit is designed help communities better address the needs of people experiencing homelessness, and other vulnerable populations, during a disaster. 

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Webinar: Preparing for the 2017 PIT Count: Promising Practices for Counting Youth

This webinar provides guidance for communities preparing for the 2017 Point-in-Time count. Federal partners have agreed to establish 2017 as the baseline year for measuring progress in ending youth homelessness in the context of the PIT count. 

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United States Interagency Council on Homelessness Fact Sheet

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) leads the national efforts to prevent and end homelessness in America. This fact sheet details the work of the agency, including information on Opening Doors.

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Case Studies: Building School/Housing Partnerships for Families Experiencing Homelessness

This series of profiles features communities that are using innovative, collaborative practices to increase housing stability and school attendance of children and youth experiencing homelessness.

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Webinar: Housing + Employment Works Series

This four-part webinar series, sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development, and USICH, offers guidance and information on connecting employment and housing services to more effectively provide employment support for job seekers at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness. 

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