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Secretary
Dr. James Peake
Department of Veterans Affairs
Chairperson
Secretary Ed Schafer
Department of Agriculture
Secretary Carlos Gutierrez
Department of Commerce
Secretary Robert Gates
Department of Defense
Secretary Margaret Spellings
Department of Education
Secretary Samuel Bodman
Department of Energy
Secretary
Michael O. Leavitt
Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Michael Chertoff
Department of Homeland Security
Secretary
Steve Preston
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary
Dirk Kempthorne
Department of Interior
Attorney General
Michael Mukasey
Department of Justice
Secretary Elaine Chao
Department of Labor
Commissioner Michael J. Astrue
Social Security Administration
Secretary Mary E. Peters
Department of Transportation
Chief Executive Officer David Eisner
Corporation for National and Community Service

Acting Administrator
David L. Bibb
General Services Administration
Director Jim Nussle
Office of Management and Budget
Postmaster General John E. Potter
United States Postal Service
Director Henry C. Lozano*
USA Freedom Corps
Director Jay Hein*
White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives
Philip F. Mangano
Executive Director
* Denotes Affiliate Members

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Innovative Initiatives

This page offers insights into Innovative Initiatives that are preventing and ending homelessness. Here you will find a far-ranging set of replicable efforts focused on our common mission to eliminate homelessness with especial attention to this Administration's goal of eliminating chronic homelessness.

Whether collaborations between the business community and homeless providers, housing initiatives supported by managed care organizations, new housing technologies, research that impacts our country's streets, or borrowed service methodologies, this page offers the reader innovative ideas that support our common objective, ending homelessness.

And we won't limit ourselves to these shores. Whenever we discover an initiative that supports the goal, we'll make that new "technology" available to you, wherever its origin.
The focus will, of course, be on those initiatives that have documented outcomes that result in ending homelessness. Independent corroboration is an important element in any such determination, as are results.

Presenting “20 in 20”. . .


Twenty replicable innovations that are achieving results in preventing or ending homelessness are presented below. These innovations were profiled  in daily special editions of the Council's e-newsletter throughout May 2008.

Innovation #1

Virginia CASH Campaign (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope)

Innovation #2

Reporting Results in 10-Year Plans: Sacramento’s Scorecard

Innovation #3

Securing an ID for persons who are homeless - A Project Homeless Connect innovation from Norfolk and SF

Innovation #4

Measuring Local Results in Ending Homelessness through a State Plan: Washington State's Intergovernmental Partnership

Innovation #5

Federal-State Partnership to create the Prince Home as new permanent supported housing for homeless veterans with disabilities

Innovation #6

Cost Benefit Analysis and Consumer Satisfaction: Results from Philanthropic Investment to End Chronic Homelessness in Housing First RI

Innovation #7

Inter-Faith Ministries' Kansas Benefit Bank:  A One- Stop Solution to Access Mainstream Resources to    Prevent and End Homelessness

Innovation #8

Project Re-Connect: Achieving Successful Reentry for Ex-Prisoners through St. Louis' 10 Year Plan

Innovation #9

Ohio's Special Courts: The courts as leader and partner in preventing and ending chronic homelessness

Innovation #10

Denver's Parking Meter Initiative Fosters Community 10 Year Plan Engagement and Reduces Panhandling

Innovation #11

Soldier On: Success in the Community through an Employment and Housing Strategy with Results for Homeless Veterans in Massachusetts

Innovation #12

[Road] Map to the Future: Chicago's Homeless System Mapping Project Plans to End Homelessness

Innovation #13

King County, WA Jail Initiative for Veterans: Improving outcomes, reducing recidivism, and cutting costs

Innovation #14

St. Paul Police Department partners for housing solutions to chronic homelessness

Innovation #15

Creating Housing, Closing Shelters, Ending Homelessness: Transforming policy and practice in one community agency in Massachusetts

Innovation #16

Innovating the Innovation of Project Homeless Connect: Video sharing and social networking "show" real results in ending homelessness

Innovation #17

Researching Risk, Ending Homelessness: A replicable strategy targets the most vulnerable and disabled people living on the streets

Innovation #18

Put on Your Traveling Shoes: Make a pilgrimage to see what’s working

Innovation #19

Academia: How many roles can a partner play in new initiatives to prevent and end homelessness?

Innovation #20

Listening to the consumer: In San Diego, how delivering what homeless veterans wanted yielded the national innovation of Homeless Courts

 

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May 29, 2008
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