Homeless

The Housing Assistance Council's new Rural Resource Guide: Affordable Housing and Recovery in Rural Communities is an effort towards assisting local rural organizations with proper resources. While many across the U.S. are facing substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid misuse, housing is essential to addressing the epidemic. The guide is meant as a resource to housing practitioners looking to help provide homes to individuals affected by SUD.

These guides from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) highlights strategies for behavioral health and housing providers to conduct outreach and engage with individuals experiencing homelessness, initiate use of behavioral health treatment as they wait to receive stable housing and retain them in their recovery efforts once housed.

More than 600 people registered and 300 attended an information session on Thursday, June 30, 2022 about first-of-its kind funding to address rural homelessness from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The recording, PowerPoint handout, audio, and transcript is available from the webinar.

This presentation offers new strategies to help unhoused persons. Dr. Richardson reviews current statistics, identifies root causes, offers a description of life without a home, highlights persons with lived experience, and discusses new strategies that work to help those struggling without a home.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a broad, new initiative to connect individuals and families to housing, health care, and supportive services. Total funding of $322 million is a supplement to HUD’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Program, with $43 million for incremental housing vouchers for at-risk households, and $54 million set aside for projects in rural areas.

This article discusses specific hardships that vulnerable populations face during the COVID-19 pandemic. The vulnerable populations covered in this article include people experiencing homelessness, people who are incarcerated, and people with opioid use disorder.

The Recognizing and Addressing Rural Homeless in Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Programs webinar took place Tuesday, August 04, 2020. The presentation and video recording are included.

The JBS RCORP-TA team have collated a number of resources to assist grantees during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Currently, these resources are collected in an Excel spreadsheet for grantees to download resources of their choosing. In the coming weeks, each resource will be included in the RCORP-TA Resource Portal as an individual resource.

Generations United's National Center on Grandfamilies works to enact policies and promote programs to help grandfamilies address challenges.