Free Tools and Resources
Build your understanding of homelessness in Canada and how to solve it with practical guides, tools, and introductory learning. Below you’ll find foundational resources on topics like By-Name Data, Coordinated Access, and Continuous Improvement that you can use on your own or with a team to learn at your own pace.
Resource Library
How to develop a consistent, accessible, and coordinated process for identifying and connecting people experiencing homelessness to the right housing and supports. See also: Shared System & Governance.
How to maintain reliable, timely, and complete information on homelessness in a community. Learn to use data collaboratively to understand individual and system needs and inform action.
Learn more about approaches that combine housing and supports and the role they play in ending homelessness.
How to use information about housing outcomes to understand what is working, identify barriers, and continuously improve local homelessness response.
Develop policies and practices that enable information to be shared appropriately, safely, and consistently, while respecting people’s privacy, consent, and rights.
Learn about the structures, roles, responsibilities, and shared systems that enable a community to work together effectively to end homelessness.
Support to Apply What You Learn
If you’re working in a community homelessness system and need help adapting a tool, strengthening your data, or putting an improvement into practice, get in touch to discuss our focused engagement or training services.