Looking for resources or materials from on a past training or webinar? You can find a history of previous training presentations powerpoints, webinars, and handouts below!


Administering the Next Step Tool
The Next Step Tool is a version of the VI-SPDAT for youth and young adults aged 24 and younger.


Administering the SPDAT
The SPDAT, or Service-Prioritization-Decision-Assistance-Tool, is an evidence-informed approach to assessing the acuity of an individual’s or family’s homelessness.


Administering the VI-SPDAT 2.0
The VI-SPDAT 2.0 is the common vulnerability assessment and prioritization tool.


Animals in Shelters
Shelters often have clients who present with an animal. Learn the difference between a service animal and a emotional support animal, what laws shelters need to follow, and best practices.


Connecticut Services for Youth and Young Adults
Age-specific programs and trauma sensitive services have been developed at both state-operated and private non-profit agencies throughout Connecticut to assist young adults diagnosed with major mental illnesses, neurocognitive disabilities and/or significant trauma with their successful transition into adulthood.


Coordinated Access
Providers of service to people experiencing homelessness are coordinating their efforts to end homelessness in communities across Connecticut by developing Coordinated Access Networks (CANs).


Children in Shelters
CCEH provides resources, training and technical assistance to improve relationships between family emergency shelter, transitional housing, domestic violence shelters, early care and education programs and other mainstream services.


Criminal Justice Involvement and Homelessness
Resources and information about the link between the criminal justice system and homelessness.


Crisis Services
Resources on mobile crisis services and collaborations throughout Connecticut.


Cultural Competency and Responsiveness
In housing and homeless services, we serve an incredibly diverse range of people. Cultural Responsiveness is when services framed by understanding of culture, cultural competency, and cultural humility creating a cultural responsive foundation for families and communities to be engaged and supported utilizing the strengths of their diversity and cultural dynamics


Developing Successful School-Community Initiatives to End Youth Homelessness
Community-based initiatives that are driven by youth voice and that establish strong linkages between schools and community organizations have an important role to play in the effort to end youth homelessness.


Disabilities in Shelters
Clients living with disabilities belong to a protected class in Connecticut, which allows them rights to reasonable accommodation and protects them from discrimination due to their disabilities.


Document Ready Training
Many housing programs require documentation for clients to be admitted into their program. Accelerating the pace of getting document ready moves clients into housing faster.


Domestic Violence – Housing Survivors
Domestic Violence survivors face many unique challenges in accessing housing services and assistance.


Due Diligence – Refusal of Services Policy
This is the DOH/DHMAS Due Diligence- Refusal of Services Policy.


Emergency Shelters & Crisis Services
Methods to strengthen the front lines of the fight against homelessness and reorganize, re-prioritize, and re-connect to strengthen efforts across the board covering concepts of Rapid Re-Housing and Housing First Principles.


Employment Resources
Learn about the effect of unemployment on homelessness and employment agencies, programs, and resources throughout the State of Connecticut.


Government Programs
From the CT Department of Housing to the Department of Developmental Services, departments throughout the national, state, and local government participate in the mission to end homelessness and run housing assistance programs.


Harm Reduction
Harm reduction is a perspective and set of practical, evidence based strategies used to reduce the negative consequences of drug use or risky behavior.


Helping Clients Vote
People experiencing homelessness have a right to vote, yet run into a few challenges doing so.


Housing Plans for All Clients
Many providers are challenged to house some of their clients with unique circumstances and creating effective housing plans that work for all clients.


Housing First
Housing First approach works to shift conversation from “What can we do to help you?” to “What can we do to get you housed?”


Human Trafficking and Homeless Youth
Homelessness is one of the main risk factors for Human Trafficking and youth and young adults are one of the most vulnerable populations. Awareness is key to identification, prevention, and support for victims and survivors to end human trafficking.


Identification for Justice Involved Individuals
The CT Coalition to End Homelessness is partnering with the CT Department of Correction (DOC) to assist individuals who were previously incarcerated and are experiencing homelessness in claiming any identification they may have left with the CT Department of Correction.


Immigration
Changes in federal law have created uncertainty for people with undocumented status, as well as for the shelters who may serve them. Resources and legal guidance are available to guide service providers in this area.


Landlord Recruitment and Retention
In any fiscal climate, building and maintaining relationships with landlords is one of the most important, but challenging components of housing clients


The LGBTQ Community, Safe Shelter, & Fair Housing
Resources and information to help you guarantee a safe space & the equal treatment of the LGBTQ population.

Outreach and Engagement
Reaching and engaging hard to reach clients is one of the most challenging aspects of ending homelessness.


Progressive Engagement
Helping households end their homelessness as rapidly as possible, despite barriers, with minimal financial and support resources. More supports are applied to those households who struggle to stabilize.


Rapid Re-housing
Rapid re-housing acts as a trampoline, using targeted financial assistance and short-term services to quickly return individuals and families who have slipped into homelessness back into housing and stability.


Re-Imagining Shelter Space
Explore ways of improving Shelter Space for special populations, such as youth and young adults, the transgender and LGBTQ community, and families.


Safely Doubled-Up Families
Resources to ensure doubled-up housing arrangements are safe and appropriate for families.


Shelter Diversion
Shelter diversion is a strategy that prevents homelessness at the front door by helping them identify immediate alternate housing arrangements and, if necessary, connecting them with services and financial assistance.


Shared Housing
Shared housing is any situation in which an agreement formalizes the co-residence of two or more family units within the same housing unit.


 

Substance Use Services
Many people struggling with homelessness or housing instability also face issues related to substance use. Learn about services they can access to support them in their goals of becoming sober as you work with them toward housing.


STRIVE
STRIVE- Support to Reunite, Involved, and Value Each Other is a program to help runaway youth re-unite with their families.


Transitional Housing
Transitional Housing is a time-limited housing support that helps to end homelessness.


Trauma Informed Practices
Becoming “trauma-informed” means recognizing that people often have many different types of trauma in their lives. Learn more about trauma informed care here.


Utility Assistance
Challenges with utilities can result in someone becoming homeless and once homeless, can be a significant barrier to getting them back into permanent housing.


Young Adult Coordinated Entry Toolkit
This toolkit helps coordinated entry staff and youth providers quickly connect young adults experiencing a housing crisis or homelessness with community services and housing solutions.


Youth Outreach & Count
An annual count of homeless and unstably housed youth in the state of Connecticut during one week in January following the annual Point-In-Time Count.


Youth Engagement Team Initiatives (YETIs) 
Regional work groups bringing together partners in efforts to end youth homelessness in Connecticut.


Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)
A program providing youth specific homeless response resources including youth navigators, diversion and rapid exit funds, crisis housing, rapid re-housing, and provider training and technical assistance.


Youth Resources
Youth homelessness can often be one of the most invisible forms of homelessness.


Zero 2016:
The Zero:2016 campaign is an initiative to end veteran and chronic homelessness by the end of 2016.