Practical, free resources for evaluating and strengthening homelessness response work — built for the people doing it, and free to download and use today.
These resources are designed for the directors, program managers, and planners inside homelessness response systems who need practical, actionable tools they can put to use right away.
Self-sufficiency names a capacity, but it is usually measured through a few financial outcomes. This resource examines that gap — and works outward to what it means for designing programs that build capacity, and for how a CoC rates and ranks the programs that do.
Download Free →An interactive guide to the framework that connects your mission to measurable results — the reasoning that says why your work should produce change, and the grid that shows whether it does. Read it on the site, no download needed.
Read the guide →A short self-assessment for program leaders. Answer a handful of questions about your own measurement — and find out whether your data can actually tell you if your program is working.
Download Free →A plain-language guide to the most common measurement mistake in the sector — counting activities instead of impact — and how to tell the difference in your own reporting.
Download Free →A short guide to data integrity — how to know whether the numbers behind a report can actually be believed, what they might be hiding, and where confident-looking data quietly overclaims.
Download Free →Two different questions about your program — routinely treated as one. A clear look at what each does, why you need both, and how confusing them keeps a system busy without knowing whether it's working.
Download Free →Your returns number tells you people came back — but not whether the support was matched to the need. A look at the measurement gap between what's provided and what happens, and why it's where real insight lives.
Download Free →A reference guide to the intervention continuum — what each program type is for, the theory of change it rests on, and why an intervention that works in one system can stall in another.
Download Free →Housing Problem Solving is one of the most talked-about approaches in the field — and one of the most misunderstood. What it actually is, why it works upstream, and the strengths-based premise at its core.
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