The Emergency Shelter and Street Outreach Project Performance Report and the Goals and Outcomes Report have been published!
Emergency Shelter reporting period: 4/1/2023 – 3/31/2024
Street Outreach reporting period: 06/1/2023 – 05/31/2024
Register Today: Coordinated Entry Equity Initiative Webinar Series
This webinar series, hosted by Cloudburst and sponsored by HUD, will discuss the Coordinated Entry (CE) Equity Initiative and how communities can address racial disparities in their homelessness response system through an inclusive and trauma-informed process.
| Webinar Title | Date and Time | Registration |
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HUD
Equity Initiative Product Drop: Looking Back, Moving Forward (Part 1) |
Thursday,
August 29, 2024 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT | Register Now |
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HUD
Equity Initiative Product Drop: Looking Back, Moving Forward (Part 2) |
Thursday,
September 12, 2024 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT | Register Now |
This webinar series is intended for anyone interested in learning more about the CE Equity Initiative and its related tools and products.
Continuum of Care Training Opportunities
The Office of Care Coordination, on behalf of the Orange County Continuum of Care (CoC), is hosting upcoming training opportunities intended to equip service providers, local partners, and community members with information on resources and best practices for the homeless service system. Please find details below on the upcoming training opportunities.
Housing First Training
The training will provide essential tools and techniques for Housing First implementation in design and operation by program model, including street outreach, emergency shelter and/or permanent housing. The training will cover the services and structures necessary to ensure successful housing placements, housing retention and long-term stability.
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/96156570118?pwd=oaHdKFSZKMWFlYMAASFT2P5oAQtrwE.1
Meeting ID: 961 5657 0118
Passcode: 941774
Trauma Informed Care Training
The training will build upon basic principles of Trauma Informed Care. Attendees will take a deeper dive into understanding secondary and vicarious trauma for both service providers and program participants, understand the overlap of Trauma Informed Care with Harm Reduction and other core principles, and identify ways to incorporate principles into service delivery practices with people experiencing homelessness.
Please note, this training is intended to expand on the Trauma Informed Care training held by Dusty Olson on August 10, 2023. If you would like to review the previous Orange County CoC Trauma Informed Care Training, please watch the training at: https://ceo.ocgov.com/care-coordination/homeless-services/continuum-care-additional-documents
This virtual training requires registration.
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Please register to attend by Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdO2qrjwiHdJtJ9LWFQtk3OiKs95mVQLi If you have questions about the trainings, please reach out to the Office of Care Coordination at CareCoordination@ocgov.com
Orange County CoC Dashboard Published!
Check out the new Orange County CoC Dashboard for Q2 here.
Upcoming Webinar: Trauma-Informed Practices: Serving Older Adults Facing Housing Instability — U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Tuesday, July 16 @ 2:00 – 3:00 P.M. ET
This webinar will explore how trauma can appear uniquely for older adults facing a loss or change in their housing and how advocates can adjust their practice to accommodate and empower their clients.
Follow Along at #NAEH2024
The Alliance will host the 2024 National Conference on Ending Homelessness and Capitol Hill Day next week. If you aren’t able to join, there are a few ways to follow along at home:
Livestream the Plenaries
The Alliance will be livestreaming each plenary session from the conference. Register to follow along from home:
- Opening Plenary: Monday, July 8 @ 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. ET
- Day 2 Plenary: Tuesday, July 9 @ 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. ET
- Closing Plenary: Wednesday, July 10 @ 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. ET
Transitional Housing Project Performance Report Published!
The Transitional Housing Project Performance Report and the Goals and Outcomes Report for 4/1/2023 – 3/31/2024 have been published!
Click here to view the reports.
Register Today: Rapid Re-Housing: A Proven Approach to Ending Homelessness Webinar
Thursday, June 20 @ 3:00 – 4:30 P.M. ET
An effective response to homelessness requires permanent housing solutions with enough flexibility and options to meet an entire community’s diverse housing needs. But meeting these needs is a real challenge amid the nationwide housing affordability crisis. Rapid Re-Housing, as a program model, has the potential to be flexible and adaptable at the system, program, and individual levels. In this webinar, hear from communities that are harnessing that flexibility to meet the moment and generate innovative and creative housing solutions.
New Unsheltered Homelessness Resource Collection Now Available
The new Unsheltered Homelessness resource collection features both new and existing technical assistance materials that highlight innovative approaches to serving households experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
Unsheltered homelessness takes many forms in both urban and rural settings. Those experiencing unsheltered homelessness can be sleeping in locations such as vehicles, abandoned buildings, farms, and in the wilderness.
The resource collection assists different audiences in coordinating efforts, grounded in Housing-First and public health principles, to reduce unsheltered homelessness while improving services, health outcomes, and housing stability among highly vulnerable individuals and families living in unsheltered situations.
The resource collection is organized by topic and audience, such as housing focused outreach and encampment resolution, permanent housing strategies, and data and reporting. The collection also compiles resources specifically developed for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and recipients awarded Unsheltered and Rural Special Notice of Funding Opportunity (Special NOFO) grants, to support local efforts to house people experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
LSA (Longitudinal System Analysis) Report FY 2023 has been Published
Every year, HUD submits an Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to the US Congress. The AHAR is a national-level report that provides information about homeless service providers, people and households experiencing homelessness, and various characteristics of that population. It informs strategic planning for federal, state, and local initiatives designed to prevent and end homelessness. The LSA report is produced from each CoC’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), and is compiled to create the AHAR report to Congress.
Check out the LSA Report FY 2023 here.