The sharing of lessons learned is critical to moving towards the goal of preventing and ending homelessness for all Virginians.

Please submit information on your organization’s and community’s strategies to prevent and end homelessness by emailing vceh@vceh.org.

Here are some tips on what we are looking for...

• Do you document or are you planning to document outcomes in terms of the number of clients assisted who remain in permanent housing six months to one year later?
• Do you provide homelessness prevention assistance? 
• Do you have a cost analysis of how your program saves money because it decreases criminal justice system or foster care system involvement?
• Do you document the number of clients who have previous foster care or criminal justice system involvement?
• Are you working to transition your shelter to a program focused on permanent housing?
• Do you provide home based case management?
• Do you have an example of a partnership between a non-profit housing developer and a homeless services agency to provide permanent housing?
• Do you have an example that is close to any of this? Send along!

Let's get more Virginia examples recognized as best practices.  Please send along information for consideration.