On Our Way Home: Missoula Community Houselessness Strategy 2025-2028

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We are excited to announce that On Our Way Home: Missoula Community Houselessness Strategy 2025-2028 is here! The strategy was created by a group of 16 community members representing: housing and houseless services, behavioral health, medical care, Missoula Coordinated Entry System, property management, faith community, neighborhood councils, and more. People with lived expertise of being unhoused in Missoula currently or in the past comprised nearly one-third of group representatives. Review the full strategy and the one page overview to learn more.

Homebase worked closely with community partners and City of Missoula staff to lead our community through the process of

We are excited to announce that On Our Way Home: Missoula Community Houselessness Strategy 2025-2028 is here! The strategy was created by a group of 16 community members representing: housing and houseless services, behavioral health, medical care, Missoula Coordinated Entry System, property management, faith community, neighborhood councils, and more. People with lived expertise of being unhoused in Missoula currently or in the past comprised nearly one-third of group representatives. Review the full strategy and the one page overview to learn more.

Homebase worked closely with community partners and City of Missoula staff to lead our community through the process of crafting a collective strategy that is dynamic and adaptable to changing conditions. Homebase began working with Missoula in January 2024 and deployed a variety of tools and mediums to help guide community members, service providers, neighbors with lived expertise of being unhoused, and local government towards a strategy. Tools included: interviews, focus groups, a town hall, a leadership group, guidance on best practices, examples of models in other communities, and much more. This process was of and for the community and we're grateful to all of you who showed up to share your perspective over the last year!

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Community partners across Missoula worked together to address houselessness under Reaching Home: Missoula’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness until it reached its lifecycle in October 2022. The plan, launched in 2012, was robust and included 10 goals driving how the Missoula community devised programs and projects to meet the needs of Missoulians who are unhoused, ultimately making instances of houselessness rare, brief, and one-time only. Upon its ending, JG Research & Evaluation conducted an Evaluation of the 10-Year Plan in partnership with City of Missoula Houseless Programs. The evaluation was completed and released to the public in March 2023.

  • Focus Groups on April 3rd & April 4th

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    Focus Group: Experiencing Houselessness for the 1st Time, Wednesday April 3rd from 3:30-4:30pm at Revive Church Basement (2811 Latimer St)

    This focus group is open to anyone who identifies as a person currently or recently experiencing houselessness for the 1st time. Homebase will facilitate focus groups and ask questions about participants’ experiences and ideas for improving the local response to houselessness. There are 20 spots available for this focus group and all participants will be compensated with a $35 Visa gift card. The 20 spots are first come first serve. If you plan to attend either focus group, we encourage you to email missoulastrategy@homebaseccc.org to reserve a spot OR to arrive 5-10 minutes early.


    Focus Group: Unaccompanied Houseless Youth, Thursday April 4th from 10:30-11:30am at Currents Aquatic Center (600 Cregg Ln)

    This focus group is open to anyone who identifies as a person under 24 years old who is, or recently was, living outside, in a shelter, or couchsurfing and does not live with parents or other family members. Homebase will facilitate focus groups and ask questions about participants’ experiences and ideas for improving the local response to houselessness. There are 20 spots available for this focus group and all participants will be compensated with a $35 Visa gift card. The 20 spots are first come first serve. If you plan to attend either focus group, we encourage you to email missoulastrategy@homebaseccc.org to reserve a spot OR to arrive 5-10 minutes early.


    Focus Group: Experiencing Houselessness for the 1st Time, Wednesday April 3rd from 3:30-4:30pm at Revive Church Basement (2811 Latimer St)

    This focus group is open to anyone who identifies as a person currently or recently experiencing houselessness for the 1st time. Homebase will facilitate focus groups and ask questions about participants’ experiences and ideas for improving the local response to houselessness. There are 20 spots available for this focus group and all participants will be compensated with a $35 Visa gift card. The 20 spots are first come first serve. If you plan to attend either focus group, we encourage you to email missoulastrategy@homebaseccc.org to reserve a spot OR to arrive 5-10 minutes early.


    Focus Group: Unaccompanied Houseless Youth, Thursday April 4th from 10:30-11:30am at Currents Aquatic Center (600 Cregg Ln)

    This focus group is open to anyone who identifies as a person under 24 years old who is, or recently was, living outside, in a shelter, or couchsurfing and does not live with parents or other family members. Homebase will facilitate focus groups and ask questions about participants’ experiences and ideas for improving the local response to houselessness. There are 20 spots available for this focus group and all participants will be compensated with a $35 Visa gift card. The 20 spots are first come first serve. If you plan to attend either focus group, we encourage you to email missoulastrategy@homebaseccc.org to reserve a spot OR to arrive 5-10 minutes early.

  • Call for Lived Experts on the Leadership Group

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    We’re ramping up strategy development to prevent and reduce homelessness, and we at Homebase (a non-profit technical assistance provider for advancing solutions to homelessness) are facilitating this community-engaged process. As a first step, we want to ensure the Community Planning Leadership Group includes people with lived experience of homelessness. The Leadership Group will identify priorities and direct the strategy development process, so it will be important to have a diverse representation of voices within the Leadership Group.

    Homebase and the City of Missoula need your help recruiting people with lived experience to apply to the Leadership Group! Your organizations are best positioned to bridge information-sharing and connections with lived experts in Missoula. We have created an online application and flyer that you can easily share around the community.

    Individuals selected to participate in the Leadership Group will be compensated ($35/hour) and will be expected to meet 3 or more times through the Spring and Summer in a combination of in-person and online meetings. After the Leadership Group concludes, there may be opportunity for continued work.

    Thank you so much in advance for your helping advertise this opportunity. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out! The Homebase team can be reached at emergingcommunities@homebaseccc.org.


    Application link: https://bit.ly/49AuRui Please ask people to apply by March 3rd.

    We’re ramping up strategy development to prevent and reduce homelessness, and we at Homebase (a non-profit technical assistance provider for advancing solutions to homelessness) are facilitating this community-engaged process. As a first step, we want to ensure the Community Planning Leadership Group includes people with lived experience of homelessness. The Leadership Group will identify priorities and direct the strategy development process, so it will be important to have a diverse representation of voices within the Leadership Group.

    Homebase and the City of Missoula need your help recruiting people with lived experience to apply to the Leadership Group! Your organizations are best positioned to bridge information-sharing and connections with lived experts in Missoula. We have created an online application and flyer that you can easily share around the community.

    Individuals selected to participate in the Leadership Group will be compensated ($35/hour) and will be expected to meet 3 or more times through the Spring and Summer in a combination of in-person and online meetings. After the Leadership Group concludes, there may be opportunity for continued work.

    Thank you so much in advance for your helping advertise this opportunity. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out! The Homebase team can be reached at emergingcommunities@homebaseccc.org.


    Application link: https://bit.ly/49AuRui Please ask people to apply by March 3rd.

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