An estimated 15.5 million American children are exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) every year. Such exposure negatively impacts children’s health, development and academic performance and may also be accompanied by housing instability or homelessness….
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Lavon Morris Grant, Director of Community Engagement at NRCDV, and Andrea Miller, Housing Director at ZeroV (formerly the Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence) have a candid conversation on the development of accessible, permanent, affordable, and…
This two-page document provides a flow chart that illustrates the process of Assessing for and Appropriately Responding to the Housing Needs of Survivors. This depicts a recommended approach to assessment, which is not intended to…
This article describes the common struggle with how to equitably and fairly implement coordinated entry (CE) through use of a screening tool that assigns points to individuals or families based on their ‘vulnerabilities.’ As an…
This research brief highlights a study that was done to better understand the complexities involved in helping IPV survivors obtain safe and stable housing, and reflect on the importance of integrating critical reflection, intersectionality, and…
The Housing First model has been shown to be a highly effective approach to achieving permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals with serious mental illness and chemical dependency. There are numerous components of the model…
WSCADV’s Domestic Violence Housing First (DVHF) program was designed to eliminate housing as a reason for survivors to stay in abusive relationships by providing flexible advocacy. This approach gave survivors of domestic violence the ability…
This presentation describes DASH’s low-barrier, voluntary, trauma-informed approach to service provision in its programs aimed at helping survivors achieve safe housing. Includes discussion of how fidelity to core beliefs influence program outcomes.
This slide deck describes results of an evaluation of the District Alliance for Save Housing (DASH) Survivor Resilience Fund, a low-barrier and trauma informed approach to homelessness prevention for survivors.
This presentation discusses implementation of a housing first approach within a domestic violence program, including elements and approaches, effectiveness with wide range of survivors, steps to development and the change process within the culture of…
