Library — Toolkits

Coordinated assessment centers must be prepared to serve domestic violence survivors seeking assistance and must be able to accommodate their safety and confidentiality needs. The tools in this section will help communities ensure their coordinated assessment process is serving survivors as safely and effectively as possible.

This section includes materials that discuss specific communities’ models or were provided directly by communities that have implemented successful prevention and diversion programs.

These documents will be helpful to communities as they create a comprehensive plan on how and where to provide prevention and diversion assistance to households in need.

This toolkit will help communities integrate best practices in providing prevention assistance, prevention targeting, and shelter diversion into their homeless assistance system, their coordinated assessment process in particular. It includes customizable tools, information on best practices, and materials from communities that have implemented these practices.

The tools included here will help communities develop assessment and referral processes that identify households’ barriers to re-entering permanent housing, give households a chance to succeed with minimal assistance, and lead to informed and appropriate referral decisions.

This is the final of five short modules the Center for Capacity Building has developed on rapid re-housing. Each of these modules succinctly shares best practices from successful rapid re-housing programs and breaks down the basic elements of each approach. This module reviews data and research on rapid re-housing, suggested outcomes, and examples from various communities that have implemented rapid re-housing.

This is the fourth of five short modules the Center for Capacity Building has developed on rapid re-housing. This module covers how and where to provide supportive services as part of a rapid re-housing approach.

This pages offers resources for those advocates planning to host their Member of Congress for a site visit over the congressional recesses through the November election.

This toolkit includes definitions of transgender and gender nonconforming populations, data on the transgender adult population, and recommendations for providing services to transgender youth who are experiencing homelessness.

This document is a checklist that Continuums of Care can use to use to ensure they are considering and incorporating the needs of households fleeing domestic violence and other forms of assault and harassment into their coordinated assessment processes. In addition to addressing the individual items in this list, systems should ensure they include domestic violence providers in the discussion of how the assessment system is structured from the beginning.

This is the third of five short modules the Center for Capacity Building has developed on rapid re-housing. This module covers how rapid re-housing programs can structure and fund rental subsidies for maximum effectiveness.