Further Learning and Training

These resources can help you dig deeper into an array of topics related to aging and homelessness.

Federal Health and Social Service Programs that Support People Experiencing Homelessness is a tool to help state and local leaders identify and access federal non-emergency health and social service programs.
The Housing and Services Resource Center has a list of acronyms from multiple sectors that will come up frequently in this space.
Homelessness Prevention Series: Spotlight on Older Adults raises up several examples from around the country of community actions taken to address the rise of older adult homelessness.

Partnership Tools
Aging-homelessness partnerships are growing, and to meet a need, USAging and our project partner, National Alliance to End Homelessness, are creating an action guide on AAA–CoC partnership development. In the meantime, these health-housing guides and examples of current aging-housing partnerships are available.

Housing and Health Partnership Strategies Toolkit provides general tips for ways to contact and begin partnerships with other organizations in your community.
Identifying and Building Partnerships with Your Local Housing Sector is a series of three interactive virtual workshops about affordable housing basics and key organizations, with Workshop #3 specifically covering tips to develop partnerships.
Camden Coalition’s partnership worksheet for health care organizations and community-based organizations (and its instructions) can help provide a jumping-on point for prompting issues to talk through.

Training

San Diego Regional Task Force on Homelessness and the San Diego AAA recorded trainings, including a duo of webinars focusing on aging and homelessness that can be found at the bottom of the Training section of their Standards, Learning and Training page.
Supporting Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness is a free training course to teach participants about the unique challenges older adults face while experiencing homelessness.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness created an online learning course to give service providers in the homeless response and aging networks insight about the needs of older adults experiencing homelessness. Caring for Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: For Service Providers is self-paced; participants can anticipate about three hours of training. Access to the program costs $39.95 and offers a certificate of completion.

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