DiscoverDwellingsEpisode 34: Hope in a Backpack - Frontline of Homelessness Response
Episode 34: Hope in a Backpack - Frontline of Homelessness Response

Episode 34: Hope in a Backpack - Frontline of Homelessness Response

Update: 2025-07-31
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Targeted Outreach and Engagement Program(TOEP) - a model focusing on resolving encampments. Collaboration between departments helps bringing specific services and resources to sites and encourage unsheltered residents to seek shelter and forge a path to rehabilitation.

The Vulnerability Index – Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool(VI-SPIDAT) - an assessment tool for frontline workers at agencies that work with homeless clients to prioritize which of those clients should receive assistance first. The SPDAT tools are also designed to help guide case management and improve housing stability outcomes.  

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Episode 34: Hope in a Backpack - Frontline of Homelessness Response

Episode 34: Hope in a Backpack - Frontline of Homelessness Response

Vanessa Butera, Greg Pensinger, Jeff Scott