PROGRAMS & BEST PRACTICES
The St. Louis City Continuum of Care is committed to helping the community implement and utilize proven, effective, and efficient best practices with a focus on permanent housing as the means to end homelessness in the City of St. Louis.
Best practices are models of care that have been successfully utilized in other communities as proven by positive outcomes of moving homeless individuals and families from homelessness to permanent housing.
On this page you will find information about the best practices currently being implemented in the St. Louis City community along with links to resources to learn more about each practice/model.
St. Louis City Continuum of Care Program Type Best Practices
Housing First
Trauma-Informed Care
Coordinated Entry
Fair Housing and Equal Access
Program Type Best Practices
Best practice refers to a technique that is generally accepted as the most effective approach to addressing a problem, this acceptance is based on supportive research.
Code of Conduct & Conflict of Interest Policy
Housing First
Housing First is an approach to addressing homelessness that is grounded in the belief that, above all else, homelessness is a crisis best responded to by providing housing as quickly as possible to those in need.
Eviction Moratorium Fact Sheet
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed programs and services are based on an understanding of the vulnerabilities or triggers a trauma survivor may experience and how they may impact the way the individual accepts and responds to services.
Coordinated Entry
Coordinated entry processes help communities prioritize assistance based on vulnerability and severity of service needs to ensure that people who need assistance the most can receive it in a timely manner. Learn more about the coordinated entry process.
Fair Housing and Equal Access
Coordinated entry processes help communities prioritize assistance based on vulnerability and severity of service needs to ensure that people who need assistance the most can receive it in a timely manner.
Landlord Partnerships
HomeScreen provides modern, data-driven tenant screening solutions.
HomeScreen is a completely non-discriminatory, Fair Housing-compliant tenant screening service, free of charge for landlords looking to maintain good tenants.
We are unique in the tenant screening field because we are a non-profit service, looking beyond applicants’ credit scores and arrest records when screening their applications for housing.