Strategic Opportunities and Federal Initiatives to Address Homelessness in California
Explore California's efforts to reduce chronic homelessness through strategic goals such as increasing access to supportive housing and enhancing state leadership. Learn about federal investments in rapid re-housing and supportive services for veteran families, highlighting ongoing funding and crisis response retooling initiatives.
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COUNTY WELFARE DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION WEBINAR CALWORKS HOUSING SUPPORT PROGRAM California Dept. of Housing and Community Development Presentation August 6, 2014
CA POLICY ACADEMY TO REDUCE CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS 2013 SAMHSA-SPONSORED Persons w/Lived Experience Federal Agencies Localities Housing & Service Providers State Agencies Statewide Interests Legislative Staff Continua of Care 2
CALIFORNIA POINT-IN-TIME DATA 160,000 136,826 135,928 133,129 132,931 130,898 140,000 120,000 100,000 80,000 60,000 40,000 27,164 26,540 26,144 25,210 25,094 20,000 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Persons in Families 3
STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES Goal 1 Goal 2 Goal 3 Increase access to permanent supportive housing (PSH) in existing inventory and programs. Expand use of mainstream resources, taking full advantage of ACA and Medi- Cal reform. Design the California PSH approach
STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES Goal 4 Goal 5 Increase State leadership and interagency coordination to reduce homelessness. Support re- tooling of local crisis response system.
FEDERAL INVESTMENTIN RAPID RE-HOUSING California HPRP, 1-Time, 2009 ARRA Allocation $44.5 M Entitlement State- Administered $145 M 6
FEDERAL SUPPORTIVE SERVICES FOR VETERAN FAMILIES- 2014 $32 million 39 Grantees 14 Continuum of Care For more information http://www.va.gov/HOMELESS/SSVF.asp
GOAL 4: RETOOLING CRISIS RESPONSE Align Existing Resources for RR State ESG CalWorks Invest in Rapid Re-Housing Build Continua and RR capacity Allocate Future Resources 9
USINGTHE LESSONSOF HPRP AND OTHER INITIATIVES Ending homeless requires robust, community-wide system of rapid re-housing Connect with local Continuum of Care Lessons Learned Small amounts of assistance effective Works for people with many barriers Targeting prevention is extremely challenging Success relies on community-wide performance and outcome measurement progress Build on existing capacity and program infrastructure ESG, SSVF, CoC providers Use HMIS for data and performance
LOCAL INFORMATION Continuum of Care and ESG Contacts https://www.onecpd.info/grantees/ Homeless Data Exchange (HDX) public reports Shelter and transitional demographics, length of stay, prior living situation http://www.hudhdx.info/PublicReports.aspx Homeless Reports and Housing Inventories PIT Counts http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewHomelessRpts
CONTACT INFORMATION Cindy Cavanaugh Assistant Deputy Director, Homeless and Housing Policy State Department of Housing and Community Development Cindy.Cavanaugh@hcd.ca.gov 916 263-5883
