REINSTITUTE INC

About RE!NSTITUTE:
RE!NSTITUTE is a non-profit working to transform the way systems serve their communities worldwide. RE!NSTITUTE works with local government, non-profits, people on the frontlines, and with lived experience to strengthen the systems that prevent and end homelessness across the U.S. Our Housing and Homelessness work has helped house over 36,000 people across more than 80 communities in the US.

Our Work in Housing and Homelessness:
RE!NSTITUTE’s 100-Day Challenge methodology brings stakeholders together to define and analyze problems, develop solutions, and implement them rapidly. We are currently working with communities across California, Illinois, and Palm Beach, FL, to achieve significant results and uncover challenges within each communities housing and homelessness system by giving people on the frontlines and with lived experience the power to collaborate, innovate and execute.

Lived Expertise Fund:
To transform systems to serve the individuals most in need is crucial that people with lived expertise and experience must participate in the transformation of the housing and homelessness system. People with lived expertise and experience are essential partners in this effort: they offer insight into how the system directly impacts the community it was designed to serve. Their participation offers teams the chance to design equitable solutions by offering those directly impacted a seat at the table and empowering them to be decision-makers.

This fund supports the participation of individuals with lived experience to be involved in 100-Day Challenges happening across the country to transform how local government, non-profits, and communities work to end Homelessness in the U.S.

Why?
A person with lived experience is someone who has lived (or is currently living) with an issue caused by an inequity. The presence of people with lived expertise transforms a 100-Day Challenge team by having a person with lived expertise be fully empowered and involved in decision-making to transform systems. Their participation is not only to inform other participants of often unseen pain points within systems but to truly have a seat at the decision-making table to transform deep systems change work. As the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness says, directly consulting with people who have lived experience of homelessness is vital to ending chronic homelessness.
“As a person with lived experience, I’m excited about 100 people [housed], but I am super excited about the possibility that with the necessary adjustments and changes in the system, we would be able to house over 66,000 people in our County. This goes beyond this 100 days – this is about our tomorrows, this is about my tomorrow.” - Reba Stevens, LA County Mental Health Commissioner with Lived Experience.

“Our work is about placing the people in need at the center of the institutions designed to help them. A person who needs housing will be at the heart of re-thinking how the housing and homelessness system works…or a woman suffering violence, at the center of how the criminal justice system supports her. One way we can center these voices is by inviting people with lived experience to be a part of the chorus of voices that inform deep systems change work.” - Echo Collins-Egan, Chief Impact Officer, RE!NSTITUTE
RE!NSTITUTE’s Impact:
RE!NSTITUTE has worked with communities on housing and homelessness since 2015, focusing mainly on youth, veterans, and unsheltered and chronic populations.
● We have supported over 60 communities in doubling placement rates of chronic homeless in partnership with the 100,000 Homes campaign.
● We have helped 25 of the largest cities in the US decrease veteran homelessness by 47%, compared to 27% in the rest of the country during the same 5-year period.
● We have supported nearly 50 communities in addressing youth homelessness, resulting in over 4000 youth and young adults being safely and stably housed