Homeless+Prevention

Homelessness Prevention
Providers of homelessness prevention services have begun meeting to design services to be delivered under the HEARTH-defined Emergency Solutions Grants, with funding expected in the first half of 2012. Notes of these discussions are below, along with Best Practice publications for use in these efforts.

In 2010-11, individuals and families that entered Sonoma County homeless housing came from the following locations:

 //Source: 2011 Annual Performance Report for Shelters; 2010-2011 HPRP Annual Performance Report.// Program planning for future prevention services needs to take into account the very large number of shelter entrants who were staying with friends of family rather than in their own units, before they became homeless.

HUD's interim regulations for the new Emergency Solutions Grants program have been posted at [], and can be downloaded here:

HPRP documents that can be adapted for ESG use:

The next meeting in this effort is **Thursday, April 12, 2012, 12:00 noon-2:00 pm**, at Catholic Charities, 987 Airway Court, Santa Rosa.





Here is the Rapid Re-Housing Triage Tool as described in the November 10, 2011 notes: (Alameda County Study) (Minneapolis materials, page down for their score sheet)