Resources
Notes From the Field
Ten Things To Do Now To Prevent Family Evictions (October 2021)
Policy Brief: Leveraging the American Rescue Plan’s Housing Resources to Help Families (July 2021)
Harnessing Cross-Systems Data to Keep Families Together (May 2021)
Data Collection Strategies for Identifying Families Facing Child Welfare Involvement & Homelessness
“Influence of Supportive Housing Demonstration on Child Welfare Policy & Practice”
“An Introduction to Supportive Housing for Vulnerable Families”
Interagency Collaboration: Moving the Needle on Supportive Housing and Child Welfare
Promoting Family & Child Centeredness and Quality In Supportive Housing Program and Service Plans
Strategies for Improving Parental Functioning within a Supportive Housing Context
Other Resources
CSSP & CSH Welcome Home: Design and Practice Guidance for Supportive Housing for Families with Children
CSSP & CSH A Practice Framework for Delivering Services to Families in Supportive Housing
CSSP & CSH Tenant Manual & Welcome Packet
CSH – Keeping Families Together Guidebook
CSH – One Roof Keeping Families Together 8-Step Road Map
CSH – Racial Disparities and Disproportionality Index & National Supportive Housing Needs Assessment
CSH & The Ounce – Crosswalk – Early Childhood Home Visiting and Supportive Housing for Families: Making the Connections
CSH and US Administration for Children & Families – Early Childhood Self-Assessment Tool for Family Supportive Housing – A Guide to Support the Safe, Healthy Development of Young Children
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ACYF – Child and Family Transitions among Families Experiencing Homelessness
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ACYF –Information Memorandum ACF 1-18-17 Family and Youth Homelessness, Child Welfare, Federal Resources
Child Welfare Information Gateway – Building Partnerships to Support Stable Housing for Child Welfare-Involved Families and Youth
Child Welfare Information Gateway – Family Engagement: Partnering With Families to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes
Casey Family Programs – What do we know about the impact of homelessness and housing instability on child welfare-involved families?
Casey Family Programs – How can supportive housing help improve outcomes for families in the child welfare system?
CSH – Opportunities to Leverage Family First Prevention Services Act Resources
Learning Communities
Housing Solutions for Vulnerable Families Focused on Assembling Permanent Housing Resources
National Forums
Executive Summary: Child Welfare and Supportive Housing Leadership Forum on Youth & Families – Baltimore 2018
Evaluations & Reports
Report: Bringing Families Home San Francisco Supports Child Welfare-Involved Families – October 2021
Keeping Families Together Pilot Evaluation Report – Metis & Associates, December 2011
Urban Institute: Supportive Housing for High-Need Families in the Child Welfare System – November 2014
Urban Institute: Supportive Housing for Families in the Child Welfare System (additional resources)
HEART Alliance for Sustainable Families Preliminary Evaluation Findings – December 2015
Housing and Child Welfare, University of Connecticut & Chapin Hall, University of Chicago – July 2016
Can ‘housing first’ prevent child abuse and neglect, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Five-year Housing Demonstration Sites Face Diverse Challenges while Providing Some Benefits to Families, Chapin Hall at University of Chicago – May 2019
Supportive Housing for Families in the Child Welfare System, Urban Institute – May 2019