National Alliance for Safe Housing

The National Alliance for Safe Housing (NASH) has released a toolkit for homelessness housing providers who work with victims of domestic and sexual violence. The Toolkit’s focus on safety planning will help providers better link to victims’ services and ensure that survivors receive the support needed.

In 2017, the National Alliance for Safe Housing, in collaboration with the Domestic Violence and Housing TA Consortium and other key partners, developed and disseminated a national Safe Housing Needs Assessment to gather input from community service providers, coalitions and continuums of care. This assessment -- the first of its kind -- aimed at simultaneously reaching the domestic and sexual violence field and the homeless and housing field. It gathered information on topics ranging from the extent to which both fields coordinate to provide safety and access to services for domestic and sexual violence survivors within the homeless system, to ways in which programs are implementing innovative models to promote long-term housing stability for survivors and their families. This report provides an overview of the key findings from the 2,000+ people who participated in the needs assessment.

This webinar highlights two communities (Taos, NM and Scranton, PA) working to meet the housing needs of survivors in their rural areas. Presenters from NM will share information about their parallel domestic violence coordinated entry system, developed in the context of extremely high rates of poverty, child homelessness, and racial disparities. Presenters from PA will discuss the state of housing across PA, their parallel DV coordinated entry system, and programmatic modifications to better connect with survivors in a large geographic and sparsely populated area.

This webinar examines how housing first and rapid re-housing models can be adapted for domestic and sexual violence survivors. We explore effective approaches employed by a growing number of victim service providers to lower barriers for survivors accessing housing assistance, as well as what we're learning about their impact, particularly in Washington State (WSCADV's DV Housing First).  

This webinar explains the connections between domestic violence and sexual assault, homelessness and housing and underscores that domestic violence related homelessness is family homelessness.

This FAQ tool has been developed in response to questions the Consortium has received from DV/SA advocates who are interested in learning more about the Homeless Continuum of Care coordinated entry (CE) requirements and process to promote CE access and safe housing options for survivors. The FAQ draws from regulations and other guidance from HUD and USICH and offers strategies and resources for DV/SA providers who want to contribute to the creation and implementation of the CE process in their communities.

This webinar focuses on the importance of safety/safety planning considerations in Coordinated Entry Systems for domestic and sexual violence survivors. Designed specifically for CoCs, these webinar slides provide practical approaches for addressing safety issues facing survivors.

This webinar examines how new approaches employed by a growing number of victim services programs can support safe and stable housing for survivors and explores how modifications to the Rapid Re-housing model can boost its effectiveness with survivors.