Selected Pilot Communities and Grantees

Selected Pilot Communities and Grantees

 

Strengthening Young Families, Antelope Valley, California
Program
Strengthening Young Families uses a mobile case management model, meeting and serving clients where the client is living. This approach is particularly appropriate for Antelope Valley, which is a relatively rural area with limited public transportation.
Partners
  • Valley Oasis (provider of domestic violence, emergency shelter and homelessness services)
  • Mental Health America (adult mental health services, case management and additional housing)
  • Antelope Valley Partners for Health (child and family services)
  • Healthy Homes, a program of Antelope Valley Hospital (child and family services)
  • United Way of Greater Los Angeles (fiscal and administrative oversight)
About the Community
Each night in Los Angeles, approximately 80,000 people are homeless.  Families are a growing percentage of this population, ranging from 20% to 43%.1

 

Hope & Home, Pomona/Pasadena, California
Program
The project brings together the sophisticated adult services, including mental health and substance abuse treatment, of Prototypes with the cutting-edge child development interventions provided by Foothill to serve the family as a whole.
Partners
  • PROTOTYPES: Centers for Innovation in Health, Mental Health and Social Services (multi-service agency serving women and their families)
  • Foothill Family Service, “Foothill” (mental health and other services for infants, children and teens)
  • Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
  • Pomona Unified School District (referral source, Advisory Board member)
  • Hacienda La Puente Unified School District (referral source, Advisory Board member)
About the Community
Each night in Los Angeles, approximately 80,000 people are homeless.  Families are a growing percentage of this population, ranging from 20% to 43%.1

 

STRong: Strengthening Our New Generation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Program
The program utilizes a rapid rehousing model with supportive services, where a worker’s first priority is to ensure a client is stably housed. The program has leveraged housing vouchers from Hennepin County specifically for the program and has successfully advocated with landlords and behalf of clients.
Partners
  • Reuben Lindh Family Services (child and parent services agency)
  • St. Stephens Human Services (housing and other services for those experiencing homelessness)
  • Wayside House, Inc. (chemical health agency for women)
About the Community
In Minnesota, 8,900 people are homeless on any given night, with about three-quarters concentrated in the Twin Cities area.  Ethnic minorities comprise 9% of the state population, but 57% of the homeless population.2

 

Family Assertive Community Treatment (FACT), Chicago, Illinois
Program
FACT is a adapting the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) evidence-based model (intended for single adults) to serve families. The program is characterized by intense services provided by a multi-disciplinary, highly coordinated team maintaining a manageable caseload.
Partners
  • Beacon Therapeutic and Diagnostic Treatment Center (lead agency providing child development elements)
  • Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (housing and homelessness, case management and systems integration)
  • Mercy Housing Lakefront (housing agency)
  • Inner Voice (specializing in homelessness)
  • Thresholds Psychiatric Rehabilitations Centers (child development and family services)
  • Voices for Illinois Children (advocacy organization, supporting policy and system change)
About the Community
In Chicago, approximately 74,000 individuals were homeless in 2006; it is estimated that 21,078 were homeless on any given night. Of those, over 26,000 were children.3
 
1 Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center 2004. Homelessness in Los Angeles, A Summary of Recent Research
2 Amherst H. Wilder Foundation 2003. Homeless in Minnesota
3 Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, December 21, 2006. How Many People are Homeless in Chicago?

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