TAC has broad expertise and proven experience that extends beyond competency in HUD's McKinney-Vento programs to community-based mental health and substance abuse services, homeless outreach strategies, discharge protocols, job training, and employment programs – all areas that play a critical role in ending chronic homeless.

TAC's relevant and successful experience includes hundreds of consultations and technical assistance interventions with federal, state, and local public health, mental health, substance abuse and other human services systems to facilitate access to the broad array of supports and services needed by chronically homeless people. TAC's staff and consultants have decades of experience in the organization, financing, and delivery of publicly financed mental health, substance abuse, and health care services.

Recent Projects:

HUD Chronic Homeless Guide: TAC authored HUD's Defining Chronic Homelessness: A Technical Guide for HUD Programs As part of the development of this guide, TAC researched best practices regarding documenting chronic homelessness and worked with HUD staff, peer TA providers, and grantees/sponsors to develop tools that can assist projects across the country.

Serving Chronically Homeless Persons: Based on the success of the guide, TAC developed a companion step-in training, Serving the Chronically Homeless: Eligibility, Documentation, and Promising Practices that TAC presented in multiple HUD Field Offices.

Assessment of Chronic Homeless Initiative Grants: In addition to the creation of the HUD guide and companion training, TAC was also the lead TA provider on HUD's assessment of McKinney-Vento Chronic Homeless Initiative (CHI) Demonstration projects. As part of this assessment, TAC developed research tools and methodologies, and conducted onsite and telephone interviews with key staff from CHI grantee and sponsor agencies.