About the Founder

Aubrey Sitler (MSW, MPP) is a national expert on federal homelessness policy, evidence-based and best practices, and homeless system design, implementation, and continuous quality improvement. A clinical social worker by training, Aubrey is committed to bridging high-level program design and on-the-ground implementation to ensure impact. Since 2016, she has been supporting communities nationwide in building effective, localized, and accountable responses to homelessness as a strategic planner, a HUD technical assistance (TA) provider, a data analyst, a researcher, and an evaluator. She specializes in addressing youth and young adult homelessness and in coordinated entry system design and implementation.

Aubrey is seasoned in navigating rigid funding and policy requirements while upholding human-centered solutions that build toward a future that partners across a community envision. She knows that the best solutions and ideas come from the people closest the pain. And she believes in the promise that systems hold to deliver consistent and impactful outcomes when they are designed and implemented well.

Aubrey's experiences before entering the homelessness field deeply inform her interdisciplinary approach to and inspiration for her work. These include:

• Strategy division staff of a state-level veterans agency

• Direct-service with adults with developmental disabilities in rural Ohio

• Case manager for adults with major psychiatric diagnoses in Melbourne, Australia

• Domestic violence intervention in Michigan

• Farm hand on an organic farm in North Carolina

• English teacher in rural Argentina

Areas of Expertise

Homelessness programs, systems, data & reporting

Youth & young adult homelessness

Authentic collaboration with people with lived experience, including YAB recruitment & launch

Quantitative & qualitative data collection & analysis 

Coordinated entry system policy, design & implementation

CoC Board governance

CoC and ESG Program regulatory compliance

Evidence-based & best practices for direct service provision

Gender-based violence & DV intervention