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Beyond Shelter Technical Assistance Manuals

Beyond Shelter's technical assistance manuals help disseminate information about its methodologies and also serve as the training curriculum for Beyond Shelter's consulting and technical assistance workshops. The Family Survival Guide is a direct service tool for families to use.

The "Housing First" Program for Homeless Families:
Methodology Manual
(First edition 1993; revised 1999)

This methodology manual provides step-by-step guidance to adapting Beyond Shelter's "Housing First" Program, which essentially bypasses completely or limits transitional housing and instead moves homeless families directly to permanent housing with supportive services provided after the move. The manual is targeted to program developers, directors and front-line staff working with homeless families. (Funded by the Seaver Institute and the Soref Foundation; 205 pages/$25.00.)

THIS EDITION IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

A REVISED EDITION IS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT.

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Service-Enriched Housing: Models and Methodologies
(1998)

Service-Enriched Housing: Models and Methodologies provides a guide to the provision of services in rental housing in general. These services are not necessarily targeted to those who are at risk or with special needs. The manual includes descriptions of housing models, collaborations, management roles, resident empowerment, neighborhood resources and funding options. It is designed for housing developers, management companies, property owners and social services agencies. (Funded by the Ahmanson and ARCO Foundations; 192 pages/$25.00.)

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Successful Household Money Management
(1993)

Successful Household Money Management is a curriculum manual for teaching low-income families and individuals the basics of money management, with practical exercises about credit, budgeting, saving and shopping wisely. (Funded by the Bank of America Consumer Education Fund; 53 pages/$8.00.)

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Family Survival Guide
(First edition 1995; revised edition 1998)

The Family Survival Guide is a life skills and household management guide to help families improve their parenting and housekeeping skills; understand tenant and landlord roles and responsibilities; and improve access to and utilization of neighborhood and community resources and services. This publication has been adapted by agencies throughout the United States. (Also available in Spanish & diskette/electronic version (formatted in Word for Windows 6.0). Funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation; English and Spanish. 97 pages/$10.00; diskette/electronic version/$25)

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ANTHOLOGY

Beyond Shelter's methodologies have also been featured in a number
of government and nongovernmental publications, including:

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"Housing Plus Services: Supporting Vulnerable Families in Permanent Housing" (PDF) published in a special September/October 2004 edition of Child Welfare, a publication of the Child Welfare League of America. To order the entire edition, click here.
The "Housing First" Approach For Families Affected by Substance Abuse (PDF) reprinted from the Spring 2004 edition of The Source, a publication of The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center.
What Makes a Solution? Lessons and Findings From Solutions for America, published by Pew Partnership for Civic Change, 2003.

Solutions for America: 19 Hometown Success Stories, published by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, 2002.

Solutions for America: What's Already Out There: A Sourcebook of Ideas from Successful Community Programs, published by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, 2002.

Understanding Homelessness: New Policy and Research Perspectives, published by the Fannie Mae Foundation, 1997.

New Perspectives on Self-Sufficiency: Strategies of Nonprofit Housing Organizations, published by Tufts University, 1997.

National Community Reinvestment Coalition: The Best Practices Manual, published by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, 1997.

Beyond Housing: Profiles of Low-Income Service-Enriched Housing for Special Needs Populations, published by the Enterprise Foundation, 1997.

"Service-Enriched Housing: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty," published in Shelterforce - The Journal of Affordable Housing Strategies, July-August, 1996.

Beyond Shelter: Building Communities of Opportunity, published in the United States Report for Habitat II, 1996.

Communities at Work: Addressing Urban Challenges, published by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1996.

VISIONS - The Mega-Cities Project for the Future of Metropolitan Los Angeles, published by Mega-Cities Project, 1996.

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