1. Opening Doors Update
National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference
July 13 2011
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2. Opening Doors
Goals of Opening Doors
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1 Finish the job of ending chronic homelessness by 2015
2. Prevent and end homelessness among Veterans by 2015
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3 Prevent and end homelessness for families youth and
families, youth,
children by 2020
4. Set a path to ending all types of homelessness
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3. Annual Update Highlights
Annual Update Highlights
 Strong support for Opening Doors
 Opening Doors is still the right roadmap
 Good work happening in context of
recession
 Laying the groundwork for future success
 Better collaboration
 Better data collection
 Engaged communities
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4. Annual Update Highlights
Annual Update Highlights
Key Accomplishments
 Unprecedented collaboration
Unprecedented collaboration
 Enhanced data collection, analysis, and reporting
 Better use of targeted resources
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 Improved access to mainstream resources
 Increased engagement with states and local communities
 President’s FY 2012 Budget proposal
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5. Interagency Collaboration –
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vouchers and services
 HUD‐VASH
 Chronic Signature Initiative with HUD
Chronic Signature Initiative with HUD
and HHS
 Families with Children Signature
Initiative with HUD, HHS and Education
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6. Collaboration ‐ Veterans
Collaboration Veterans
 VA Medical Centers: developing local VA 5 Year Plans; working with
local stakeholders
 Increased focus on female Veterans and their families in DOL’s
HVRP program
 Collaborative work to review barriers to mainstream programs for
Veterans
 Interagency prevention pilot in five sites (HUD, VA, Labor)
 Education and VA: working together to improved understanding
educational rights of homeless children
 HUD and VA: improving data collection and reporting through 2011
PIT; Vets AHAR; HMIS
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7. Collaboration –
Collaboration Families
 Significant work on 10K Housing Choice Vouchers
Demonstrations
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Weekly interagency engagement
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 Common vocabulary discussion
 Impact of HPRP and upcoming ESG
Impact of HPRP and upcoming ESG
 Engaging Education’s state coordinator and local liaisons about
local and state involvement
 Broadened participation by Department of Education
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8. Unaccompanied Youth
Unaccompanied Youth
 USICH: increasing understanding through program visits and
focus groups
 Youth signature initiative: concept development
 HUD and HHS: improving data collection and reporting
through 2011 PIT; HMIS/RHYMIS
 More interagency collaboration for foster youth, youth
leaving juvenile justice, and LGBTQ youth
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9. Collaboration –
Collaboration DOJ
 Summit ‐ Searching for Balance: Civic
Engagement in Communities
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Responding to Homelessness
 Report: alternatives to
criminalization
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10. USICH
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