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Issue Brief

Family Homelessness - USA

Scope of the Problem  factual statements on the extent of the problem in the past, current, or future

Past Policy & Program Milestones  key legislation and milestones including significant policy and funding shifts, major studies, etc.

Current Policy & Programs  summary of current policies in the form of legislation, programs, and funding

Key Organizations contacts for public and private organizations

• Government
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• Non-Profit - Service Providing
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• Non-Profit - Advocacy/Membership/Network
• National Coalition for the Homeless: a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness. We are committed to creating the systemic and attitudinal changes necessary to prevent and end homelessness. At the same time, we work to meet the immediate needs of people who are currently experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of doing so. We take as our first principle of practice that people who are currently experiencing homelessness or have formerly experienced homelessness must be actively involved in all of our work. Toward this end, the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) engages in public education, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing. We focus our work in the following 4 areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights.
• National Alliance to End Homelessness: The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States.
• National Center on Family Homelessness: The National Center on Family Homelessness (The National Center) conducts state-of-the-art research, identifies and disseminates best practices and innovative solutions, and raises public awareness about the unique needs of homeless families. 
• Campaign to End Child Homelessness: The Campaign is reaching out to state and local officials, policymakers, families, communities, advocates, service providers and the media to galvanize public and political will to end child homelessness in America.
• National Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Council: HCH is a membership organization whose missions is to help bring about reform of the health care system to best serve the needs of people who are homeless, to work in alliance with others whose broader purpose is to eliminate homelessness, and to provide support to Council members.
• National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth: is the voice and social conscience for the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness. NAEHCY accomplishes this through advocacy, partnerships, and education. 
• Foundation
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• Other
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