The Must-Watch Orientation

While this training will provide baseline understanding for anyone curious about homelessness, it is specifically designed for civic leaders such as elected leaders, government officials, nonprofit staff, and other community partners, who are actively working to end homelessness. 

Leaders with any length of history on this issue - weeks or decades - will benefit from this training. One of the insights from unpacking the systemic dynamics driving homelessness is that we can live in one part of the system (e.g., a nonprofit providing shelter, a city elected leader) and we never gain awareness about other parts of the system. This course leverages Andrew's many hats as a service provider, government executive, consultant, and researcher. 

When people start working on homelessness, the solution often feels so obvious - it's housing, it's enforcement, it's [insert]. Andrew also thought homelessness was so simple when he first started working on it, yet within a few short years he shifted to calling it one of the most complex social issues we face. This training distills nearly 15 years of on-the-ground experience to breakdown that complexity in an easy to understand format with concrete next steps on how we move forward.

There have actually been many eras of homelessness throughout our nation's history, each caused by a different portfolio of socioeconomic policies. The training goes into more detail about this.

Yes, the "homeless industrial complex" is an important issue perpetuating the Modern Homelessness Crisis. That said, rather than being a nefarious, profit-driven plot from service providers, as described in the training, this dynamic is more about the inefficiencies that have emerged within the systems of care designed to end homelessness.

This, and many other common myths about homelessness, are addressed in this training, with resources and information you can then use to set the record straight in your community

In 2018, Andrew was named the top national influencer in local government by Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL), which has over 4,800 members from all 50 states plus Canada, UK, Israel, and Australia, for his work with the City of San Rafael, breaking down the complex issue of homelessness and mobilizing community engagement around solutions. This training provides information, frameworks, and additional collateral to support communi

Yes. In fact, this training is designed to save you from spending $100,000 on a strategic plan by covering a range of strategies and initiatives that you can implement today and see immediate value.

This training provides a detailed breakdown on how communities can and should think about budgeting for homeless services, ranging from outreach to shelter to prevention resources.

This course includes 4 learning modules. Module 1 is about 10 minutes and introduces the concept of systems thinking. Module 2 is about 45 minutes and breaks down the five major issues driving The Modern Homelessness Crisis. From this analysis, Module 3 is about 30 minutes and offers a new strategy / principle for driving change. Module 4 is about 60 minutes and describes concrete next steps for driving action in your community. 

No. The information and recommendations in this training are meant to be standalone. The only ask at the end is that if you like the course and find it helpful, please share it with others, so we can reach our goal of training 10,000 civic leaders.

Rather than giving you partial information and then upselling you on additional services or expensive consulting work, this training is meant to provide standalone information. Any revenue from this course will be immediately reinvested in developing new trainings, research, and collateral that will always be provided in an honest, unbiased, and impartial way. We want to end The Modern Homelessness Crisis - that's the only goal.