• The 2020 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) and Sheltered Point in Time Count (PIT) have been submitted to HUD!
• Thank you to all the agencies that participated in the process. 
• Visit the links below to see an overview of the 2020 HIC and Sheltered PIT data:
  • 2020 Housing Inventory Count (HIC) Overview
  • 2020 Sheltered Point in Time (PIT) Overview
• For more information visit the HIC and PIT Reports Page

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disproportionately impact the homeless population. The following webinars can help aid in community response and strategy for this crisis, leveraging new and existing data and resources:

Effective Diversion: A Key Strategy for Ending Homelessness
Wednesday, July 1st at 3:00 pm ET – please note new date and time

Effective diversion has never been more important than during the coronavirus pandemic. This webinar will provide an overview of the best diversion practices, and how communities are implementing diversion to ensure that new federal COVID-19 homelessness resources are most effectively and efficiently targeted.

View past webinars and materials >>>

Partner Webinars

National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Testing for COVID-19 in Homeless Shelters & Encampments: Discussing CDC’s New Health Department Guidance & NHCHC’s Newest Issue Brief
Friday, June 19th, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT

As capacity for COVID-19 testing grows in most communities, high-risk settings such as homeless shelters and encampments are increasingly being prioritized for universal testing events. New CDC guidance for health departments (to be released shortly) outlines factors that local and state agencies can use to further inform specific policies being developed for these venues. A new National HCH Council issue brief provides lessons learned and testing strategies that HCHs in five cities have found to work successfully when conducting universal testing. Come to this discussion to hear about these new resources and bring your questions about testing in your community.

Attend the Nationwide Town Hall on Ending Homelessness: July 15, 2020

The 2020 Nationwide Town Hall on Ending Homelessness, the Alliance’s first-ever online event on ending homelessness, is now open for registration. 

The Town Hall seeks to provide a virtual space for members of the homeless services community to gather, celebrate, and strengthen their work in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and will take place July 15th, 2020, at 1pm ET.

The Nationwide Town Hall on Ending Homelessness will be streamed online across multiple platforms; registration is available free of charge. Stay tuned for updated speakers and event details.

Register for the Town Hall

The COVID-19 Webinar Series continues to guide homeless response systems on how to strategize resources, adapt service delivery, and plan for the future during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Register for upcoming Alliance webinars:

COVID-19 Webinar Series: Effective Diversion: A Key Strategy for Ending Homelessness
Thursday, June 18th, 3:00 pm ET

Effective diversion has never been more important than during the coronavirus pandemic. This webinar will provide an overview of the best diversion practices, and how communities are implementing diversion to ensure that new federal COVID-19 homelessness resources are most effectively and efficiently targeted.

View past webinars and materials >>>

Promising Practices and Resources for Quarantine Hotels
Thursday, June 11th, 2:00 pm ET

The National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, along with the National Alliance to End Homelessness and the Corporation for Supportive Housing, will present a webinar on emerging practices for quarantine hotels/motels. This approach is commonly used among health and community-based organizations working to protect the individuals experiencing homelessness or housing instability during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The webinar will be especially relevant for programs that are newer to housing.

HUD’s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) invites Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) recipients, homeless assistance providers, and their partners to participate in a 90 minute webinar on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 from 3:30-5:00 PM EDT to discuss how to most effectively and efficiently target homeless prevention resources during COVID-19. This will be especially important as ESG recipients consider the best uses of their CARES Act funding.

By the end of the webinar listeners will:

• Know the elements of a successful prevention strategy and how it supports an overall rehousing strategy
• Understand the approaches to targeting prevention for maximum effectiveness and efficiency
• Understand a coordinated investment planning approach with concrete examples of planning for targeted prevention
• Have the tools to make concrete decisions about the role and scale of targeted prevention efforts

Participants do not need to register in advance. It is strongly recommended that you join this webinar 15 minutes prior to the start time (3:15 PM EDT). To join the webinar, simply access the login page at the link below.

Join the Targeting Homeless Prevention in the Midst of COVID-19 Webinar.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the Office Hours or encounter difficulties joining the session, please contact Natalie_Matthews@abtassoc.com.

Visit the SNAPS Disease Risks and Homelessness page for a full list of COVID-19 infectious disease prevention and response resources.

COVID-19 Online Learning Series The National Alliance to End Homelessness and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council have developed the COVID-19 Online Learning Series. This online course curriculum is designed to provide training and materials to aid in community responses to COVID-19 among people experiencing homelessness, and can support broader CoC homeless response. These COVID-19 Online Learning Series courses are available free of charge for the first 2,500 users.  https://endhomelessness.org/covidlearning/

COVID-19 Planning and Response Webinar

Operating Isolation and Quarantine Facilities and Providing Medical, Behavioral Health, and Substance Use Treatment:

Lessons Learned from King County

Featuring:

Julie Dombrowski, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Washington

Deputy Director, Public Health, Seattle & King County HIV/STD Program

I/Q Medical Lead

Josephine Wong

Deputy Director, King County Department of Community & Human Services

I/Q Operations Lead

Kelli Nomura

Director, DCHS Behavioral Health and Recovery Division

I/Q Behavioral Health Lead

May 12, 2020

2:00 – 3:30 PM ET

Register

If you have trouble accessing the webinar due to overwhelming demand, please know that we will send the recording to all registrants and post it on www.usich.gov/covid-19 by the end of the day on May 12.

NEW Coronavirus Resources ·         COVID-19 Dislocated Worker Grants, DOL (May 5) ·         Framework for COVID-19 Homelessness Response: Responding to the Intersecting Crises of Homelessness and COVID-19, NAEH (May 1)

Upcoming COVID-19 Webinars

The Alliance’s ongoing COVID-19 Webinar series continues next week, outlining tools, guidance, and strategies on responding to COVID-19 within homeless systems. 
 

View past webinars and materials here >>>

Check out the topics and speakers, and register now:

COVID-19 Webinar Series: Making Housing Happen In Difficult Times
Tuesday, May 12th, 3:00 pm ET
System leaders and providers from communities around the country that are continuing to implement effective, systemic permanent housing responses to homelessness. This webinar will discuss coordinated entry and creative housing options that take into account the additional vulnerability of COVID-19.

COVID-19 Webinar Series: Helping Survivors of Domestic Violence and Trafficking Stay Safe During the Pandemic
Thursday, May 14th, 3:00pm ET
National experts will be joined by frontline service providers to explore immediate and short-term strategies to help endangered and unsheltered survivors, including improving shelter conditions, ramping up permanent housing connections and stabilization, and implementing prevention and diversion.

COVID-19 Webinar Series: Focusing on People Who Are Unsheltered
Tuesday, May 5th, 3:00 pm ET

This webinar will focus on making unsheltered homelessness an immediate priority during the pandemic, including by increasing street outreach and health services and getting unsheltered people into both shelter and housing as quickly as possible.
 

The Alliance’s ongoing COVID-19 Webinar series continues next week, outlining tools, guidance, and strategies on responding to COVID-19 within homeless systems.  View past webinars and materials here >>> Please use #COVIDwebinar during the webinars if joining the conversation on Twitter. Check out the speakers and topics, and register now:

COVID-19 Webinar Series: COVID-19 and Data Collection Resources for Your Community
Tuesday, April 21st — 3:00 pm ET 
The data your system gathers during COVID-19 is important: it can support public health planning, inform need-based public and private funding, and contribute to research on best practices around this type of crisis.

This webinar will provide information related to HMIS data collection, privacy concerns, mobile data collection, as well as research and population sampling to determine the degree to which COVID-19 has impacted the homeless community.  Experts in these areas will provide important information and share tools that will help your data collection efforts in the field.

Speakers:
Joy Moses, Director, Homelessness Research Institute, National Alliance to End Homelessness
Fran Ledger, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Matt Simmonds, Simtech Solutions
Dr. Dan Treglia, University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice

COVID-19 Webinar Series: Federal Funding to Address Homelessness and COVID-19: Ask the Experts
Thursday, April 23rd — 3:00 pm ET
The CARES Act provided important new financial resources for addressing homelessness, both through grants to communities’ homelessness systems and through direct payments to most low-income individuals and families. This webinar will provide details about what new money is available and how to access it. It will also update listeners on the prospects for additional resources in upcoming legislation.

Speaker:
Steve Berg, Vice President for Programs and Policy, National Alliance to End Homelessness
Roxy Caines, EITC Campaign Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities