Resource Library
The following free resources have been gathered to provide on-demand training opportunities in supportive housing topics.
All training resources are introductory-level and intended for new staff or as reviews for experienced staff. More resources will be added as they are found!
As always, feel free to reach out to CoC staff with any questions, comments, or potential resources to be included.
Improving Your Service:
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (Podcast)
The Underlying Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (Training Video)
Motivational Interviewing crash course
Podcast about Lived Experience in Encampments
Housing First:
Housing First Best Practices Training
HUD x USICH: Core Principles of Housing First and Rapid. Rehousing Webinar
National Alliance to End Homelessness: Housing First
NLIHC Housing First Series: Emerging Threats Facing People Experiencing Homelessness (with slides)
Diversion:
Diversion
NAEH: Diversion Toolkit
Strategies to End Homelessness: Shelter Diversion: A Best Practice to End Homelessness
NAEH: Homelessness Prevention: Creating Systems that Work
Diversion Training (How to implement diversion techniques in your work)
Prevention:
NHLP: Eviction Prevention for Advocates
HUD: Eviction Prevention and Stability Toolkit
HUD: Eviction Prevention Data and Tools
NAEH: Rapid Rehousing Works (information about what RRH is and how it works)
NAEH: RRH Toolkit
NAEH: RRH Performance Benchmarks and Standards
NAEH: Rapid Re-Housing Training Module: Housing Barriers Assessment
Grant Application Trainings:
Data:
Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy: Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Within Data Integration
contact our HMIS Team for a personalized training/support session
Nonprofit Advocacy Guidelines
To keep updated about TN Advocacy Opportunities: OpenTable Nashville
TN Solidarity Network for Housing & Homelessness
Criminalization Documentation Form (document unjust action from law enforcement toward people experiencing homelessness)
NAEH: How to Advocate to Your Lawmaker
NLIHC: Advocates’ Guide 2023
Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy: Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Within Data Integration
National Healthcare for the Homeless Council (Healthcare x homelessness dashboards explaining: taking action, requesting information, accessing data)
Eviction Prevention for Youth Advocacy Points
***For Legal Advocacy from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty: Advocacy Manual
7/11/23: Lunch & Learn w: Aging Commission
7/25/23: Lunch & Learn with Regional One
9/5/23: Harm Reduction & Narcan Training
10/4/23: Trafficking Awareness & Prevention Training
10/10/23: Suicide Prevention Training
10/18/23: HMIS Training
12/5/23: Deescalation & Crisis Prevention Training
December 2023 Quarterly Consortium Meeting
March Quarterly Consortium Meeting
4/2/24: Motivational Interviewing Training
5/2/24: Eviction & Prevention Training
6/5/24: Coordinated Entry Training
6/11/24: VAWA Training with MALS