The Consultation and Technical Assistance program at DESC represents 30 years of accumulated wisdom and strategies developed to address the most vulnerable and most difficult to serve chronically homeless populations.
As a tenet of the DESC mission to end homelessness, staff embrace the belief that information sharing among peer agencies will result in improved services, greater housing success, and a more rapid end to homelessness nationwide. A curriculum based on specific Housing First principles and evidence based approaches to ending homelessness have been designed to help others communities achieve the comparable levels of success which characterize DESC programs.
Among the training and consultation services offered by DESC are:
- One-on-one on-site consultation services
- Intensive residential institutes
- On-line learning opportunities
- Staff shadowing and peer learning
- Vulnerability Assessment Tool training
Rates are based on a sliding fee scale. Scholarships for the residential institutes are available on a first come basis to those who qualify. For more information, contact info@desc.
DESC and NYC's Pathways to Housing are co-presenting the first-ever national conference on Housing First this Spring. The Housing First Partners' conference will create, for the first time, a national forum and dialogue for housing, physical and mental health providers, federal, state, and local government officials, researchers, advocates, trainers, peers and thought leaders engaged in ending homelessness through Housing First. more
Consultation and Technical Assistance
Client: Kayla
Kayla suffers from mental illness, diabetes and drug addiction. She came to DESC's shelter in 2004 and moved into the Morrison a year later. Being housed has enabled her to start clinical care and work on smoking cessation.
Client photo courtesy of David Entrikin © 2009