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      • A Guide to Developing a State Interagency Council
        • Purpose of a State Interagency Council
        • Getting Started: Establishment and Organization of a State ICH & Successful Practices
        • State Interagency Council Tasks and Membership
        • Development of a State Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
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        • Steps to Create a Community Strategic Plan
        • Developing a Community Strategic Plan Steps 1-3: Organizing Leadership
        • Developing a Community Strategic Plan Steps 4-7: Creating the Plan
        • Developing a Community Strategic Plan Steps 8-10: Action Plans and Implementation
        • Actions to Help Ensure Success of Your Community Strategic Plan
      • Using Data to Get Measurable Results
        • Performance Measurement of Homeless Systems
        • What Gets Measured, Gets Done: A Toolkit on Performance Measurement for Ending Homelessness
        • Making the Most of HMIS Data: A Guide to Understanding Homelessness and Improving Programs in Your Community
        • Building Knowledge, Effectiveness, and Capacity: Advancing Data on Homelessness in Eleven Communities
        • The Community Perspective: Using Research and Technology to Identify Effective Solutions to Prevent and End Homelessness
        • Demonstrating the Uses of Homeless Data at the Local Level
        • From Intake to Analysis: A Toolkit for Developing a Continuum of Care Data Quality Plan
        • Enhancing HMIS Data Quality
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      • Retooling Crisis Response Systems
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        • Centralized Intake for Helping People Experiencing Homelessness
        • Homelessness Prevention: Creating Programs that Work
        • Rapid Re-Housing: Creating Programs that Work
        • Rapid Re-Housing Online Training Series, Parts 1 and 2
        • Housing Search Assistance Toolkit
        • What is Housing First?
        • Organizational Change: Adopting a Housing First Approach
        • Crisis Indicator: Triage Tool for Identifying Homeless Adults in Crisis
        • 100,000 Homes Campaign Playbook and Toolkit
        • One Way In: The Advantages of Introducing System- Wide Coordinated Entry for Homeless Families
        • Closing the Front Door: Creating a Successful Diversion Program for Homeless Families
        • Prevention Targeting 101
        • What is "sustainable" housing cost burden? Implications for HPRP
        • Rapid Re-Housing Triage Tool
        • Coordinated Assessment Toolkit
      • Building the Permanent Supportive Housing Pipeline
        • Toolkit for Advancing Systems Change
        • Toolkit for Developing and Operating Supportive Housing
        • The Supportive Housing Training Series
        • Supportive Housing Financing Guide
        • Combining Affordable Housing Funding Sources
        • Between the Lines: A Question and Answer Guide on Legal Issues in Supportive Housing
        • NIMBY Risk Assessment and Decision Tree Tool
        • Home Works: Solving Family Homelessness through Permanent Supportive Housing
      • Using Medicaid to Fund Supportive Services
        • A Quick Guide to Improving Medicaid Coverage for Supportive Housing Services
        • Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing: A Quick Guide for Health Centers
        • Solving for Services: New Medicaid Opportunities to Pay for the “Support” in Permanent Supportive Housing
        • Primer on How to Use Medicaid to Assist Persons who are Homeless
        • Primer on Understanding Medicaid Home and Community Services
        • Report from HHS on Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for the Chronically Homeless
        • HHS Tools to Help States Lower Medicaid Costs while Improving Care
        • The Business Case for Medicaid-financed Services in Supportive Housing
      • Using HUD-VASH to End Veterans Homelessness
        • Targeting Veterans Experiencing Chronic Homelessness and Using Housing First
        • Rapid Lease-Ups
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      • United Ways Partnering to End Homelessness
        • Housing is the key
        • Recruit Partners and Make Deals
        • Think Upstream
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        • Build a Bank of Knowledge
        • Be an Agent of Change
        • Follow the Money
    • Key Strategies for Connecting People Experiencing Homelessness to SSI/SSDI
    • Research and Evaluation
      • National Research Agenda 2012
      • Access to Justice Research
      • Accessing Mainstream Benefits Research
      • Affordable and Supportive Housing Research
      • Collaboration, Capacity, and Planning Research
      • Homeless Crisis Response Research
      • Improving Health Well-Being, and Stability Research
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      • Cost-Effectiveness Studies
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    • PHA Guidebook to Ending Homelessness
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        • Housing Stabilization and Case Management
        • Partnering with Health Centers
        • Partnering with Schools
      • Programs and Policies
        • Administering CoC rental assistance (including rapid re-housing)
        • Establish Waitlist Preferences
        • Eviction Prevention Strategies
        • Helping People Experiencing Homelessness Use Housing Vouchers
        • Modifying Tenant Screening and Eligibility Policies
        • Moving Up Strategies
        • Project-Basing Vouchers
        • Sponsor-Basing Vouchers
        • Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence
        • Using Special Purpose Vouchers
      • Additional Resources
        • Creating Permanent Supportive Housing
    • Federal Guidance for Mainstream Programs
    • CoC Resources: Helping Prepare for the 2015 CoC Competition
    • Services in the CoC Program: Assessing Value and Finding Funding Alternatives
      • Assessing Strategic Value of CoC Program-Funded Supportive Services
      • CoC Services Categories with Possible HHS Program Alternatives
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