Destination:Home, a program of The Health Trust, is a public-private partnership that uses collective impact strategies to accomplish its mission, ending homelessness in Santa Clara County.
All the Way Home:
is ending veteran
homelessness
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Home Not Found:
The Cost of Homelessness
In Silicon Valley
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Ending Chronic
Homelessness through
Collective Impact
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Our goal is to
eradicate homelessness
in Santa Clara County
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USING DATA TO MAKE OUR CASE:
Through Home Not Found, the largest cost study ever conducted to analyze the public cost of homelessness and the Silicon Valley Triage Tool, we are able to understand the true cost of homelessness in this County, predict outcomes and use pubic resources to more efficiently help the most vulnerable individuals.
HOW CHANGE WILL HAPPEN
In Santa Clara County, 7,500 people are without a home on any given night. Of those, 2,500 are considered chronically homeless. The solution is this: permanent, sustainable housing for all, and resources built to last for the long term. It’s time to stop managing homelessness, and end it.
We are achieving this by moving forward with a three pronged Community Plan to End Homelessness Community Plan to End Homelessness.
Disrupt Systems
Develop disruptive strategies and innovative prototypes that transform the systems related to housing homeless people.
Build the Solution
Secure the right amount of funding needed to provide housing and services to those who are homeless and those at risk of homelessness.
Serve the Person
Adopt an approach that recognizes the need for client-centered strategies with different responses for different levels of need and different groups, targeting resources to the specific individual or household.THE SOLUTION
Housing First is a homeless assistance approach that prioritizes providing people experiencing homelessness with permanent housing as quickly as possible – and then providing voluntary supportive services as needed. Rapid-Rehousing and prevention services are effective intervention methods for individuals and families who have recently become homeless or who are at risk of homelessness.
News
June 27
Mercury News editorial: Homeless in Santa Clara County? It’s not hopeless
This week begins a media blitz in the Bay Area on homelessness — specifically how to end the social plague…
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July 8
A Place to Call Home
Here is a link to the story.
July 6
Silicon Valley Balances Stopgaps, Real Solutions to Homelessness
Phil Mastrocola (left), an outreach worker for San Jose’s Grace Baptist Church, debates how best to help the homeless with…
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July 5
Radio: Downtown Streets Team reminds us that Homelessness is an Experience… not an identity!
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QUESTIONS?
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