Center for Learning

Shelter stays can sometimes be avoided. Help keep individuals and families from falling into homelessness through a problem-solving approach. Read more

Harm reduction helps keep people safe and prepares them for positive change. Learn how to help your clients deploy this life-saving strategy. Read more

You have to connect with someone before you can help them. This course explores the core concepts, standards of care, and best practices that street outreach workers must embrace to build initial, supportive connections with people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. We’ll also talk about how outreach staff members can facilitate clients’ connections with housing. Read more

Take your shelter practices to the next level. Explore the five key elements of effective emergency shelter and learn more about the role shelters can play in ending homelessness. Read more

To help clients, we need to help them feel welcome, safe, and seen. Read more

Outreach works best when you have partners. This course offers insights into how businesses can support or hamper street outreach efforts and how outreach workers and homelessness system leaders can build sustainable and productive partnerships with businesses to improve the community response to homelessness. Read more