Diversion is a client-driven approach; its goal is to help the person or household find safe alternative housing immediately rather than entering a shelter or experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
This training is primarily for those new to homeless services. It gives an overview of the Continuum of Care, how systems work, best practices in case management, frameworks we practice, and other helpful information. This is an in-person training with a walking tour of the shelters on Lancaster.
The Housing Assessment Tool (HAT) training will cover why the CoC decided to move away from the VI-SPDATv2, why it is an effective tool, best practices for usage, and provide an opportunity for attendees to conduct mock assessments with support from the trainer.
This training is for shelter workers, outreach workers, and housing case managers and covers how to document homelessness to prove chronicity. We cover third party letters, self-affidavits, verification of disability, and the Chronic List Cohort.
The training will cover CAS workflow from match creation to housed, this includes case managers responsibilities when interacting with housing matches. Additionally, best practices when using the Warehouse will be covered including linking the importance of Warehouse and ETO as they relate to housing matches in CAS.
This training will review the eviction laws and special circumstances, effective landlord engagement, and how the landlord engagement team can support you.
This is an overview of Coordinated Entry from start to finish. We will cover how coordinated entry works, the systems we use to make it work and the best practices/philosophies that drive our Coordinated Entry process. This is not a deep dive in to one particular aspect of Coordinated Entry, rather a comprehensive overview.
This training will review the purpose of documentation, provide documentation tips and best practices when documenting a case note.
Come and review foundational principles for ethical practice and principles from the Texas Code of Conduct and then learn how to apply these to ethical situations that arise in practice.
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