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Tucson Community Nonprofit Grows with a Change in Housing Programming

As the leaders of Old Pueblo Community Services (OPCS) can attest, the landscape of housing and reentry services is never static. For this nonprofit organization that serves people at risk of homelessness in Pima County, Arizona, the communities they work in, their clients, funding streams, and research into best practices all evolve over time—and OPCS’ leaders recognize the importance of evolving along with that landscape.

For LA’s Chronically Homeless, Recovery Is ‘Just In Reach’

Through pre- and post-incarceration services, Just In Reach creates a stable environment in which goals such as employment and family reunification can be built.

HUD Publication Outlines Promising Reentry Housing Models

It Starts With Housing is a new publication from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that encourages public housing authorities to collaborate with partners to “make second chances real for the men and women returning” from jail and prison.

Key Resources

Assessing Housing Needs and Risks: A Screening Questionnaire

National Reentry Resource Center

This questionnaire is intended to help reentry professionals better assess an individual’s unique housing needs and risk of homelessness upon returning to the community. Departments of correction, reentry service providers, service intake coordinators, case managers, and others should use the questionnaire as a supplement to any existing intake or case planning processes. Adequately assessing housing needs and coordinating service delivery between partner organizations closes service gaps, improves continuity of care, and reduces the likelihood of a client falling through the cracks.

Addressing the Housing Needs of Youth and Young Adults in Contact with the Justice System

June 30, 2016

Homeless Services 101: What Reentry Service Providers Need to Know

June 22, 2016