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Support services are critical for promoting the stability that supportive housing residents need to thrive. But without sustainable services funding, housing providers cannot deliver the essential care and support that make housing truly supportive. This webinar is designed to equip supportive housing funders, developers, and stakeholders with the tools and insights needed to evaluate and strengthen tenant-based services funding. 

What You’ll Learn:

• Build lender capacity to underwrite supportive services budgets using key metrics related to staffing and targeted tenancy
• How to assess and evaluate services budgets, including those with Medicaid funding
• Key distinctions between tenant-based and project-based services funding models

Featured Resources:

• An introduction to CSH’s new guide: Considerations for Underwriting Tenant-Based Service Funding for Supportive Housing.
• A walkthrough of CSH’s Supportive Services Budgeting Tool and how to use it in your underwriting process.

Why Attend?

Whether you are a CDFI member, funder, bank, investor, or developer, this session will help you:

• Ask the right questions during underwriting.
• Evaluate the sustainability of services funding sources.
• Identify risks and opportunities in tenant-based funding models.

This webinar will provide an overview of the most consequential Medicaid provisions within H.R.1 and the impact on housing providers. CSH policy experts will offer guidance on state policy options that can minimize harm to people with complex health needs and the housing organizations that serve them.

What You Will Learn:

• The key decisions state Medicaid leaders must make and the timelines they face to implement provisions. 
• How these changes will impact access to healthcare and housing stability. 
• Practical ideas and resources to help housing providers keep people enrolled in vital healthcare services.

Who Should Attend:
Supportive housing providers, state Medicaid leaders, health system partners, policy professionals, and anyone working at the intersection of housing and healthcare.

Registration is now closed as this webinar is at capacity.

Join CSH for a Free Two-Part Webinar Series: Key Strategies to Tackle Unsheltered Homelessness  

Explore practical solutions and proven approaches to tackling unsheltered homelessness in this informative two-part series. 

Session 1: September 4 at 1:00 PM ET 
Session 2: September 11 at 1:00 PM ET 
Register Now

As homelessness continues to rise across the United States, communities face an urgent need for effective strategies to address this complex crisis, particularly for individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness. In light of these growing challenges, CSH is excited to offer a dynamic two-part webinar series designed to empower social service providers, municipalities, CoC Leads, housing providers, funders, and those with lived experience to work collaboratively in creating impactful solutions. 
 
Session 1: Systematizing Your Approach to Ending Unsheltered Homelessness 
In our inaugural 2-hour workshop, CSH will outline key strategies to address unsheltered homelessness through intentional, systematized efforts. We will also feature a dynamic panel discussion with systems experts and innovative service providers who are effectively addressing unsheltered homelessness in their communities. These thought leaders will share successful strategies, unique insights, and their experiences navigating the challenges of homelessness . Attendees can engage directly with our panelists during an interactive Q&A session, fostering a lively exchange of ideas and best practices. 
 
Following the presentation and panel, CSH will facilitate an optional interactive discussion, and participants will have the opportunity to break into smaller groups for focused discussions and brainstorming sessions. This peer learning environment encourages attendees to share insights, challenge assumptions, and explore collaborative strategies that can be adapted to their unique community needs. Additionally, attendees will gain valuable exposure to CSH’s innovative products, designed specifically to support communities in effectively tackling homelessness at all levels. 

Session 2: Housing-Focused Outreach and Case Management 
Part Two of the Key Strategies to Tackle Unsheltered Homelessness webinar series  will dive deep into housing-focused homeless outreach and case management. This session will clarify what housing-focused outreach entails, its effectiveness in combating homelessness, and how organizations can implement this approach throughout their communities’ homelessness response system. Participants will learn best practices and explore prime examples that demonstrate how to transform the fundamental philosophy of outreach and case management by focusing on housing from the outset of establishing relationships with new clients. 
 
Registration Options: 
Participants can register for either Session 1 or Session 2, or attend both sessions for a comprehensive experience. This is an essential opportunity to gain knowledge, share strategies, and empower your community in the effort to end homelessness.  

Don’t miss the chance to be part of this important discussion! 
 
Reserve Your Spot Today! 

In today’s affordable housing landscape, understanding trauma is more important than ever. Join us for our first ever in-person Trauma-Informed Approaches for Property Management Professionals Certificate. Take advantage of this opportunity to gather with the trainers and your peers in person and learn using hands-on activities that will help you apply what you learn to your daily work.

This dynamic, three-day training is designed for affordable and supportive housing property management professionals. You’ll learn how trauma impacts individuals, communities, and systems while enhancing your ability to provide quality housing, reduce the risk of re-traumatization, and improve outcomes for residents. Join us to gain practical tools and transform the way you manage your properties.

Every day, innovative and passionate organizations like yours invest their hearts, time, and energy in the fight against poverty. Still, we know too little about what works and why.

CSH is thrilled to be partnering with Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) to design and implement rigorous evaluations focused on looking at how housing aligned with services helps individuals, families, and communities thrive.

You are invited to learn more about how to partner in this unique, pro-bono research opportunity by attending our upcoming webinar on Wednesday, June 18^th at 1pm. This opportunity is fitting for anyone looking to measure how specific programs and policies that align housing with services impact areas such as trauma, disease management, financial stability and mobility, educational attainment, housing stability and time spent in institutional settings.

During the webinar, CSH & LEO staff will provide an overall introduction to LEO,  case studies of current partners, an outline of the vetting process and what a research partnership with LEO looks like for organizations. 

As of Fall 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved 27 states and Washington D.C. to use Medicaid to cover supportive housing services. While these services do not directly provide housing, they can assist health center patients who are experiencing homelessness and/or housing instability in applying and accessing housing. Details regarding these services differ significantly depending on your state. In response, CSH created a state-by-state Medicaid Housing Related Services Toolkit to answer critical questions, including how to develop, offer, and refer to these services.

Session #1 (Jan 23, 2025, 2:00 PM ET) will cover how to use the Toolkit

Session #2 (Jan 30, 2025, 2:00 PM ET) will focus on how health centers can leverage these resources to make effective patient referrals.

Join us in educating lawmakers on the needs of Californians experiencing homelessness through Advocacy Day.

This year’s Advocacy Day will take place on March 25, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST at the California State Capitol in Sacramento.

Advocacy Day Rally

Can’t join our full day event? No problem, everyone is welcome to gather at the rally and be part of the change! Join housing advocates and passionate elected leaders on the West Steps of the California State Capitol from 10-11AM PST for the Advocacy Day rally. The rally will energize our collective mission to advance supportive housing solutions across the state.

What is Advocacy Day?

Advocacy Day offers a chance for advocates to educate legislators and their staff on the needs of Californians experiencing homelessness. We will draw attention to policy proposals that would provide ongoing state funding for affordable housing and services, protect existing state programs, and create new programs to prevent homelessness among older adults and people with disabilities. You are the expert legislators need to hear from! 

Do I need prior advocacy experience?

No prior advocacy or policy experience is required to attend! CSH will provide training sessions to prepare you for Advocacy Day and you will be prepped with all the materials you need to have successful meetings with State Legislators.  

Please spread the word and share this with your partners! We are excited to welcome as many passionate advocates as possible in Sacramento to help advocate for statewide solutions to end homelessness in California!   

Join us to celebrate the launch of CSH’s first-ever NY Supportive Housing Institute! Hear from notable housing and homelessness leaders, including NYC Housing Preservation & Development Commissioner, Adolfo Carrión Jr. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to network with leaders in the New York housing and homelessness sector, city government, and housing development fields.