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Uniting Homeless Service Partners: Ending Family Homelessness

Break down silos and build a team with a shared goal to end family homelessness. Understand your community's data, converse with stakeholders, and engage partners for support. Embrace proven strategies like Housing First and invest in homelessness prevention.

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Uniting Homeless Service Partners: Ending Family Homelessness

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  1. 2.09 Uniting Homeless Service Partners Around a Common Vision to End Family Homelessness

  2. Homelessness is SUPER complex, therefore we must: • Understand your data • Be willing to have the conversation with stakeholders about where we are currently • Work to break down silos and build a team with a shared goal and common vision • Embrace and invest in strategies that we know will work to end homelessness

  3. Understand your Data • It is imperative that you understand your data and trends in homelessness, before engaging key stakeholders • Be able to tell your community’s story • Who are you serving and what interventions do you have at your disposal

  4. Conversing with Stakeholders • If you don’t have a plan to end homelessness, develop one. If you have one share it! • Inspire the community • Help them understand how helping you, helps them and your community at large • Solicit community feedback when and where possible.

  5. Engaging Community Stakeholders • Identify partners receiving local, state or federal funds in support of efforts to end homelessness. • Engage local politicians • If your community has philanthropic partners looking to support a good cause, engage them! • Inform faith based organizations and garner their support in assisting neighbors in need • Engage the Veteran’s Administration • Don’t underestimate the support of the business community and local hospitals

  6. Be a Silo Buster Silos builds the walls in people’s minds and creates the barrier in organization’s hearts. -Pearl Zhu

  7. Embrace principles and strategies we know will work to end homelessness • Housing First • Coordinated Homeless Services System • Engage Person’s with Lived Experience • Invest in Homelessness prevention • Use data to support reallocations and investments in proven housing interventions

  8. Jerrianne Anthony Director of the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services Jerrianne.anthony@baltimorecity.gov

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