Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc.
@tacincboston.bsky.social
A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping our nation’s human services, health care, homelessness, and affordable housing systems implement policies and practices that empower people to live healthy, independent lives in the communities they choose.
Important new resource from our friends at @nlihc.org nlihc.org/resource/now...
Now Available: The Gap: Assessing the Affordability and Availability of Rental Housing in Puerto Rico
Across the United States, the private market alone fails to meet the housing needs of the lowest-income renters, and insufficient federal housing assistance fails to make up for it. Puerto Rico is no ...
nlihc.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Important new resource from our friends at @nlihc.org nlihc.org/resource/now...
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Robust data show 85%+ of people with serious mental illness (with or without substance use) thrive in supportive housing with the right services. As policy debates shift, it’s critical to stay focused on what works: housing + voluntary services.
Learn more: buff.ly/Gyl3RRL
#HousingFirst
Learn more: buff.ly/Gyl3RRL
#HousingFirst
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Robust data show 85%+ of people with serious mental illness (with or without substance use) thrive in supportive housing with the right services. As policy debates shift, it’s critical to stay focused on what works: housing + voluntary services.
Learn more: buff.ly/Gyl3RRL
#HousingFirst
Learn more: buff.ly/Gyl3RRL
#HousingFirst
TAC is hiring! Are you the leader we need -- or do you know someone who might be? We're a great team. Please share! www.tacinc.org/resource/tac...
TAC CEO Position Description
Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc. (TAC) seeks a mission-focused, strategic, and dynamic Chief Executive Officer with business development experience to lead the organization into the future, wh...
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September 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
TAC is hiring! Are you the leader we need -- or do you know someone who might be? We're a great team. Please share! www.tacinc.org/resource/tac...
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Another example of cities leading the way by following the research!
Key to this #encampment resolution:
💵 $ for RVs preserves value from biggest asset
🛏️ Private rooms provide safety & autonomy
🩷 Flexibility keeps loved ones + pets together
When offers meet needs, people say yes.
buff.ly/viwyY8G
Key to this #encampment resolution:
💵 $ for RVs preserves value from biggest asset
🛏️ Private rooms provide safety & autonomy
🩷 Flexibility keeps loved ones + pets together
When offers meet needs, people say yes.
buff.ly/viwyY8G
Berkeley's cash-for-RV program helps clear encampment, offers model for homeless solutions
A buyback program offering cash to people living in their RVs may become a model after the City of Berkeley effectively cleared out a homeless encampment this past January.
buff.ly
September 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Another example of cities leading the way by following the research!
Key to this #encampment resolution:
💵 $ for RVs preserves value from biggest asset
🛏️ Private rooms provide safety & autonomy
🩷 Flexibility keeps loved ones + pets together
When offers meet needs, people say yes.
buff.ly/viwyY8G
Key to this #encampment resolution:
💵 $ for RVs preserves value from biggest asset
🛏️ Private rooms provide safety & autonomy
🩷 Flexibility keeps loved ones + pets together
When offers meet needs, people say yes.
buff.ly/viwyY8G
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The largest HIV outbreak in Maine’s history — and the local factors that shaped it — can shed light on what to expect from the Trump administration’s policies on drug use and homelessness.
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An HIV Outbreak in Maine Shows the Risk of Trump’s Crackdown on Homelessness and Drug Use - KFF Health News
Public health experts and advocates say the outbreak has been fueled by a confluence of local factors, including the sweeping of a homeless encampment and shuttering of a sterile-syringe program. But ...
kffhealthnews.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The largest HIV outbreak in Maine’s history — and the local factors that shaped it — can shed light on what to expect from the Trump administration’s policies on drug use and homelessness.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
On the road to DC for the National Alliance of State Mental Health providers annual meeting this weekend! Stop by our table — & learn how TAC can help you improve #behavioralhealth systems, #YYA services, #Olmstead compliance, #SUD continuum of care, & more.
July 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
On the road to DC for the National Alliance of State Mental Health providers annual meeting this weekend! Stop by our table — & learn how TAC can help you improve #behavioralhealth systems, #YYA services, #Olmstead compliance, #SUD continuum of care, & more.
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Small health problems become big without the stability of a home.
"There's no question in my mind that people's health improves dramatically once they're housed," says @mkushel.bksy.social.
Read our team's recent investigation to learn more about access barriers: buff.ly/fglcw2a
"There's no question in my mind that people's health improves dramatically once they're housed," says @mkushel.bksy.social.
Read our team's recent investigation to learn more about access barriers: buff.ly/fglcw2a
Homeless people in Washington state visited ER less after moving into hotels
King County had two goals when it purchased more than a dozen hotels to convert into housing for people living on the streets—end homelessness for a bunch of people and improve their health.
buff.ly
July 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Small health problems become big without the stability of a home.
"There's no question in my mind that people's health improves dramatically once they're housed," says @mkushel.bksy.social.
Read our team's recent investigation to learn more about access barriers: buff.ly/fglcw2a
"There's no question in my mind that people's health improves dramatically once they're housed," says @mkushel.bksy.social.
Read our team's recent investigation to learn more about access barriers: buff.ly/fglcw2a
6/2 webinar hosted by the Bazelon Ctr with panelists from TAC, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, & NY Farmnet -- BE THERE us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Enhancing and Strengthening the Behavioral Health Workforce: How to Meet the Needs of Rural and Frontier Communities. After registering, you will receive a ...
Critical to providing effective mental health services is meeting people where they are and tailoring services to each individual and community’s needs. This webinar will present key considerations fo...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
6/2 webinar hosted by the Bazelon Ctr with panelists from TAC, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, & NY Farmnet -- BE THERE us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Harm reduction is a proven public health strategy to prevent #SUD-related overdoses. Join CHCS and @vitalstrategies.org on June 11 for an expert panel exploring the role of harm reduction in health care settings serving #Medicaid members.
Integrating Harm Reduction into Health Care Facilities Serving Medicaid Members - Center for Health Care Strategies
Harm reduction is an evidence-based public health strategy that prevents overdoses and the spread of infectious diseases. However, stigma, lack of awareness, and misconceptions have hindered the adoption of harm reduction tools like overdose reversal drugs, sterile syringes, test strips, and other low-barrier treatment services in health care settings such as emergency departments, inpatient units,... Read more »
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May 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Harm reduction is a proven public health strategy to prevent #SUD-related overdoses. Join CHCS and @vitalstrategies.org on June 11 for an expert panel exploring the role of harm reduction in health care settings serving #Medicaid members.
Important info for those of us working to #endhomelessness from our friends @naehomelessness.bsky.social
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May 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Important info for those of us working to #endhomelessness from our friends @naehomelessness.bsky.social
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The 3rd & final report from the @bipartisanpolicy.org #YouthMentalHealth & #SubstanceUse Task Force, "Early Action for Youth Mental Health & Substance Use: Prevention, Identification, & Support" — developed with support from TAC — is now out! bipartisanpolicy.org/report/early...
bipartisanpolicy.org
May 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The 3rd & final report from the @bipartisanpolicy.org #YouthMentalHealth & #SubstanceUse Task Force, "Early Action for Youth Mental Health & Substance Use: Prevention, Identification, & Support" — developed with support from TAC — is now out! bipartisanpolicy.org/report/early...
Honored to receive a Network of Practice grant from @americanhealth.bsky.social! This support will enable TAC to work with the Center for Family Safety and Healing & a #SurvivorAdvocacy group on reducing violence by increasing access to housing in #Ohio's Franklin County. #IPV
The Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social has recently awarded over $400,000 in support to 14 organizations in the Initiative’s network working to address pressing public health issues across the country. americanhealth.jhu.edu/news/bloombe...
Bloomberg American Health Initiative Awards 14 Network of Practice Grants to Advance Public Health
The Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has recently awarded more than $400,000 in support to 14 organizations in the Initiative’s network worki...
americanhealth.jhu.edu
May 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Honored to receive a Network of Practice grant from @americanhealth.bsky.social! This support will enable TAC to work with the Center for Family Safety and Healing & a #SurvivorAdvocacy group on reducing violence by increasing access to housing in #Ohio's Franklin County. #IPV
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Low-barrier care models have shown that when providers literally “meet people where they are,” individuals are more likely to engage in care & experience improved health. This brief summarizes #Medicaid financing options to sustainably fund these programs. @hivma.bsky.social
Financing Mechanisms for Street Medicine and Other Low-Barrier Models of Care - Center for Health Care Strategies
In recent years, health care providers have implemented innovative models of care to better meet the health and related social needs of people experiencing homelessness. This includes people who do not have a consistent residence or address, including those vulnerable to or living with HIV. Street medicine, harm reduction, and other low-barrier care models have... Read more »
bit.ly
March 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Low-barrier care models have shown that when providers literally “meet people where they are,” individuals are more likely to engage in care & experience improved health. This brief summarizes #Medicaid financing options to sustainably fund these programs. @hivma.bsky.social
Thank you, @nlihc.bsky.social for an inspiring #Forum25 this week!
March 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Thank you, @nlihc.bsky.social for an inspiring #Forum25 this week!
Greetings, friends and partners! TAC is happy to launch our Bluesky presence with a new 2-pager outlining our ongoing work in #affordablehousing, #homelessness, #Medicaid, & services for systems at every level that serve low-income #peoplewithdisabilities.
www.tacinc.org/resource/wor...
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Working with TAC - TAC
This 2-pager summarizes TAC’s services & expertise in the areas of homelessness, affordable housing, behavioral health treatment and recovery supports, Medicaid, and Olmstead and community integration...
www.tacinc.org
March 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Greetings, friends and partners! TAC is happy to launch our Bluesky presence with a new 2-pager outlining our ongoing work in #affordablehousing, #homelessness, #Medicaid, & services for systems at every level that serve low-income #peoplewithdisabilities.
www.tacinc.org/resource/wor...
www.tacinc.org/resource/wor...