A series of resources for survivors who are looking for support with housing needs. This includes finding or paying for housing, covering household costs, experiencing discrimination within housing, and accessing legal assistance. Available in Spanish…
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The webinar, Coordinated Entry Decision Tree (Part 2): Putting it into Practice, is a follow-up to a previous webinar, Determining Housing Needs for DV/SV Survivors: A Decision Tree as an Alternative to a Score Sheet….
The idea behind prioritizing the most vulnerable homeless people into limited housing is laudable, yet communities struggle with how to equitably and fairly implement coordinated entry. Communities continue to seek a brief and easy-to-use scoring…
When advocates in residential domestic violence programs throughout Missouri questioned the role of rules for residents within their programs, they were revisiting a familiar struggle. The concept and conflict of having rules in shelters has…
This infographic summarizes the findings of the report, Coburn Place: An Exemplar of the Domestic Violence Transitional Housing Model. Highlighted here are the tenets of the Domestic Violence Transitional Housing (DV TH) model, the five…
While limited research has indicated that domestic violence transitional housing (DV TH) programs may be helpful to DV survivors and their families, little is known about how such programs work in practice. Each program is…
Home visits can be an effective way to facilitate survivors’ access to services, establish trust and familiarity, and provide a view into the household’s needs. Home Free’s approach, described here in this document, includes provision…
This release announces the creation of the Safe Housing Partnerships website, which features a collection of strategies,resources, case studies, reports, and statistics that providers and advocates can use to enhance services and better meet the…
Includes the following topics: economic costs, benefits and policies; safety planning issues; intake & interview questions; and economic evidence examples.
Domestic violence agencies are committed to assisting survivors with their complex needs, but individual, community, and system-level barriers can make it difficult for them to provide the necessary supports to help women with criminal histories…
