Welcome to the Small Towns Toolkit – a guide to creating supportive housing in suburban and small towns.

This Toolkit is designed to provide easily accessible resources to local citizens, housing groups and service organizations in small towns to be used in creating supportive housing outside the major urban areas of Connecticut.  

Community Support

The most critical issue in creating non-urban supportive housing is gaining community support. Most of the tools created for this Toolkit concern this process. The toolkit includes templates for creating your own flyers, informational pieces and other useful tools in organizing support for supportive housing in your community.

Project Development

In addition to this Small Towns Toolkit, CSH has a substantial library of documents for use in developing a project.  CSH has recently  created The "Toolkit for Developing and Operating Supportive Housing.  Links to CSH’s Toolkit for Developing and Operating Supportive Housing. The purpose of this Toolkit is to provide organizations with access to tools, informational materials, and sample documents that can help them address key challenges in the planning, development, and on-going operation of permanent supportive housing projects.  The Toolkit currently contains more than 150 informational pieces, tools and sample documents.    

Table of Contents

Check out the Table of Contents to get an overview of what’s in the Toolkit. Don’t miss the Timeline and Tasks in Development to get an idea of the steps in creating supportive housing.

Educational Materials

This section includes a video, pictures of supportive housing, an online game, and a link to a recent article explaining the rationale behind supportive housing.

These shortcuts can be used to link back to individual parts of the toolkit:
Introduction to Supportive Housing -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownsintro
Building Community Support -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownssupport

Community Support Tools -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownssupporttools
Media Support -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownsmedia
Educational Materials -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownseducation
Government Support -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownsgovernment
Legal Issues -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownslegal
Partnerships in Supportive Housing -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownspartnerships
Financing Supportive Housing -
www.csh.org/ctsmalltownsfinancing

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Let us know how else we can help you develop supportive housing in Connecticut.

PHONE: 203-789-0826

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