Housing and Homeless Services

This training provides an overview of HUD’s Equal Access Rule and preventing family separation in the provision of homelessness response and housing services. The HUD Equal Access Rule works in conjunction with the federal Fair Housing Act to establish anti-discrimination protections, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ and diverse family populations, throughout HUD-funded projects - including those in the Northern Nevada Continuum of Care.

Best practices are a set of counseling styles, approaches and working strategies where people working with people  experiencing homelessness engage in motivational interviewing, trauma informed care and implement a hard reduction strategy.

Housing First is an approach where people experiencing homelessness are provided immediate access to housing and then offered the supportive services that may be needed to foster long-term stability and prevent a return to homelessness. This approach removes unnecessary barriers and assumes that supportive services are more effective in addressing needs when the individual or family is housed – when the daily stress of being homeless is taken out of the equation.

This is short introduction to the core features and interface of Excel. It includes a review of commonly used functions, and offers a practical application example for housing provider partners using data in HMIS.

Offers an overview of the project management process, its core components including a detailed Gantt chart.

This training dives deep into the key elements of housing-focused sheltering, low-barrier services, and meaningful engagement with program participants, through the lens of someone who has worked on the frontline for years. View the printable training document.

This webinar provides an overview of diversion, the best diversion practices, and how communities are implementing diversion to ensure that new federal COVID-19 homelessness resources are most effectively and efficiently targeted.

Provides an overview of Northern Nevada’s Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS), its purpose, and how to enter and maintain client data while upholding client confidentiality.

This document is intended to provide a reference to consult when there is question about how to classify a participant exit.

View the full document. Last Revised 10/2023.

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Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) is a local information technology system used to collect client-level data and data on the provision of housing and services to homeless individuals and families and persons at risk of homelessness. The Northern Nevada Continuum of Care (CoC) utilizes HMIS software that complies with HUD's data collection, management, and reporting standards. This training overviews new policies and procedures to de-identify profiles in HMIS. View the training document.

This HUD webinar taught housing counselors and housing providers to recognize and respond to consumers affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. This included using trauma-informed approaches for working with and making referrals for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, using an intersectional lens. Webinar participants learned critical information about the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime and other federal resources.

This is a HUD webinar series that highlights best practices in building partnerships between homelessness response systems and providers and victim services systems and providers.

This is a National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH)webinar that provides guidance on incorporating DV providers into Coordinated Assessment.