Implementation
Implementation
HJC’s greatest strength is turning strategy into action. We help communities translate large-scale ideas into practical, measurable steps that drive impact.
Through focused project management and implementation support, we engage partners across all levels—from executive leadership to frontline staff—to build the conditions necessary to achieve shared goals.
Our approach is action-oriented, collaborative, and grounded in accountability.
Client:
Project:
Transitional Age Youth (TAY) System Expansion
Services:
Facilitation | Implementation | Strategy
Description:
HJC partnered with the Los Angeles County Department of Homeless Services & Housing (HSH) to lead the community design of a large-scale (up to $100 million over five years) philanthropic investment to expand youth interventions across LA County.
The community design process engaged young adult leaders, providers, and system partners in a series of community workshops to set the goals and interventions of the funding application; established a workgroup, co-led by a young adult leader, to provide a deeper level of program and policy design; and established an ongoing design loop to integrate community input and shared decision-making into the implementation of any intervention funded under the expansion.
HJC will partner with HSH throughout the implementation process to ensure young people, providers, and system partners play an active role in the county’s work to prevent and end youth homelessness.
Client:
Project:
Learning Community Facilitation and Design & Implementation of Resource Website for Lived Experience System Partnerships
Services:
Facilitation | Implementation | Strategy | Tool & Resource Design
Description:
HJC worked with Lived Experience Grove to conduct a community-driven learning tool development program, and hosted a national convening of partners and legislators to share the results.
Our team created and launched a year-long Learning Community program with four communities across the country. This included facilitating monthly topic-driven all-community calls, as well as monthly community-specific coaching calls. The goal was to generate content for a web-based learning tool that can be used by any community to access relatable community examples, dynamic learning activities, and resources to facilitate learning. Eager to learn from one another, the all-community conversations led to a deeper and more robust outcome for each community.
Topics covered over the course of the year included:
Culture Shifts that lead to Equity
Vision Setting and Co-Design
Recruitment and Onboarding
Naming and Navigating Conflict
Compensation and Supports
Navigating the National Landscape
Power Sharing
Once the program completed, we convened over 50 national partners, as well as Minnesota representatives, for a three-day Lived Experience conference in Los Angeles. We presented the program and process, and launched the digital learning tool that was designed by members of the communities that will use them.
Their impact goes beyond local work. They have been intentional about connecting us to broader learning communities and helping build spaces like the Lived Experience Grove, where people with lived experience are not just present, but leading and shaping systems. Because of that, our work is more grounded,
more connected, and more effective.
LaQuita Love-Limo
Stable Housing is the Priority (SHIP)
Client:
Project:
Chicago CoC Equity Action Plan & Impact Implementation
Services:
Coaching | Facilitation | Implementation Strategy | Tool & Resource Design
Description:
HJC worked with All Chicago and in partnership with CoC Impact Team (a workgroup of the Continuum of Care) to facilitate the co-design and implementation of a Racial Equity Action Plan based on the findings of a landscape analysis provided by Arc4 Justice.
The action plan provided an accountability structure for moving the work forward, including definition and consensus on goals and metrics, timelines and benchmarks; identification of key decision makers within the CoC; assessment of tools and resources needed; anticipating and troubleshooting bottlenecks and blindspots to build trust and transparency across teams.
HJC also worked with All Chicago to implement priority strategies identified in the action plan, including co-designing tools and resources, facilitation, and coaching.
Housing Justice Collective has partnered with our community to advance more equitable and just practices within the Chicago Homeless Response System.
Through their coaching, our community team examines the homeless response system with greater curiosity and accountability, identifying areas for improvement and pursuing necessary structural changes.
This work has challenged us and propelled us toward real change—not merely good intentions. HJC consistently encourages growth, grounding their approach in a shared commitment to making this work not only impactful, but irresistible.
Elizabeth Perez, All Chicago
