Core Elements of Effective Street Outreach to People Experiencing Homelessness

Communities can use this list to assess their street outreach efforts, and to identify opportunities to strengthen their systemic approach to ending homelessness, particularly unsheltered homelessness.

This document, which was developed collaboratively with our partners is intended to identify universal elements of effective street outreach that cut across various funding streams, and which are broadly applicable to a variety of communities, geographic contexts, and sub-populations.

Communities can use this list to assess their street outreach efforts at both the program- and system-level, and to identify opportunities to build upon and strengthen their systemic approach to ending homelessness, particularly unsheltered homelessness.