For the past two years, the National Alliance to End Homelessness has worked collaboratively with the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations and seventeen rural counties in Ohio on the Rural Homeless Initiative of Southeast and Central Ohio, or the RHISCO Project. These efforts resulted in sixteen communities adopting and beginning to implement plans to end homelessness.

The process of creating those plans is detailed in a new report, Rural Homeless Initiative of Southeast and Central Ohio: A National Model for Planning to End Rural Homelessness. This report provides an extensive discussion of the RHISCO Project, the issue of rural homelessness, and the nature of the participating counties. The report also highlights the cross cutting findings, promising practices, and challenges and opportunities that emerged from the RHISCO Project. This report will be a useful tool for all rural communities looking to develop ten year plans to end homelessness and working to advance better approaches to address the issue.

To learn more about RHISCO outcomes, successes and opportunities, visit the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation website: