Tools + Training

The Alliance has developed a number of tools useful to those working to end homelessness. Guiding our work is A Plan: Not a Dream—How to End Homelessness in Ten Years. The Alliance’s Ten Year Plan identifies our nation's current challenges in addressing the problem and lays out practical steps that can be taken to change its present course and truly end homelessness. The announcement of this plan started a snowball effect that is now felt across the country. The Administration and Congress have adopted significant parts of the Ten Year Plan as policy goals. Opinion leaders have begun to echo the language and key concepts of the plan and communities and states across the nation have taken up the challenge to end homelessness. Hundreds of communities are developing or have implemented plans to end homelessness within ten years. Across the country, the movement is growing. Now more than ever, our nation is poised to end homelessness.

To help communities move forward with planning around ending homelessness, the Alliance outlined the Ten Essentials to ending homelessness. These essentials are innovative strategies being used in communities across the country. The Alliance has also developed the Center for Capacity Building to directly assist communities in the development and implementation of their plans.

Additionally, the Alliance hosts national conferences, a monthly audio conference series, and provides links to numerous government and nonprofit agencies that assist in the effort to prevent and end homelessness.