System Assessment and Design

New federal policies and a changing resource landscape are forcing communities to reassess how their homelessness programs work and are coordinated. The Alliance has numerous tools to help you assess how well your community’s homelessness assistance is functioning and design your assistance to better prevent and end homelessness.

Spotlight

Toolkits  |  January 18, 2011
The Center for Capacity Building developed a Homeless System Evaluator Tool. This tool is designed to help communities determine how well they are preventing and ending homelessness based on data from their system.
Toolkits  |  November 5, 2010
The Center for Capacity Building has developed and tested three survey tools to help your community assess the quality of homelessness assistance. The surveys are designed for consumers, providers, and community leaders.
Webinar  |  October 27, 2010
The third webinar in the Performance Improvement Clinic series has two parts. The first provides tools for assessing the impact of your community’s homelessness assistance. The second part describes important concepts for designing your homelessness assistance to better prevent and end homelessness.

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Conference Presentation  |  February 7, 2008
New research examining patterns of family shelter use is raising questions about how communities should allocate homeless assistance resources. This advanced workshop for public and community leaders examined new research on shelter utilization and highlight strategies communities are using to target resources more efficiently and achieve better system-wide outcomes.