Front Door Strategies

By implementing front door strategies like coordinated intake, prevention, and diversion, communities can decrease entries into homelessness. These resources will provide communities with information about best practices and implementation strategies. Ready-to-use tools developed by the Alliance and other communities will also be available here
By implementing front door strategies like coordinated intake, prevention, and diversion, communities can decrease entries into homelessness. These resources will provide communities with information about best practices and implementation strategies. Ready-to-use tools developed by the Alliance and other communities will also be available here

Spotlight

Toolkits  |  April 19, 2012
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.
Toolkits  |  March 22, 2012
This toolkit is meant to help communities plan, design, implement, and evaluate a coordinated assessment (also known as coordinated entry or coordinated intake). It will be updated regularly as more tools, information, and materials become available.
Solutions Brief  |  December 13, 2011
This brief is a concise “how-to” guide on how communities can begin or improve efforts to identify and effectively assist the households who are most likely to become homeless and serve them appropriately.
Best Practice  |  August 16, 2011
Diversion is a strategy that prevents homelessness for people seeking shelter by immediately identifying alternate housing arrangements. Diversion programs can reduce family homelessness, demand for shelter beds, and program wait lists.

Library Resources

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Best Practice  |  June 27, 2011
This webinar entitled "Coordinated Entry Part II: Serving Singles and Families in Columbus, OH," was held on June 23 about coordinated entry. Lianna Barbu, Operations Director at Community Shelter Board discussed the Columbus coordinated intake system for singles and for families.
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Best Practice  |  June 13, 2011
These are resources from the webinar on coordinated entry that took place on Thursday, June 9, 2011. The PowerPoint presentation and a Q+A document are included.
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Best Practice  |  May 25, 2011
| By centralizing intake and program admissions decisions, a coordinated entry process makes it more likely that families will be served by the right intervention more quickly. This brief will go over coordinated entry principles and models.