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Assessing Housing Needs and Risks: A Screening Questionnaire
This questionnaire is intended to help reentry professionals better assess an individual’s unique housing needs and risk of homelessness upon returning to the community. Departments of correction, reentry service providers, service intake coordinators, case managers, and others should use the questionnaire as a supplement to any existing intake or case planning processes. Adequately assessing housing needs and coordinating service delivery between partner organizations closes service gaps, improves continuity of care, and reduces the likelihood of a client falling through the cracks.
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What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse Focus Area: Housing
This section of the What Works in Reentry Clearninghouse provides an overview and examination of key evaluative research investigating the relationship between housing programs and recidivism reduction. Below, researchers highlight the results and conclusions of research that met the criteria for methodological rigor and provide a basis for comparing and discussing effective strategies for overcoming barriers to housing access that have emerged in the reentry field in recent years.
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Report of the Federal Interagency Reentry Council: Housing
The Federal Interagency Reentry Council (The Council) has been working since 2011 to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes related to employment, education, housing, health, and child welfare for people involved with the criminal justice system. This report summarizes The Council’s accomplishments related housing.
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