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HUD’s McKinney-Vento Programs: Moving Towards Ending Chronic Homelessness
John Garrity
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office of Special Needs Assistance Program
Slide 2:
Continuum of Care
This slide shows the flow through the continuum of care from outreach intake assesment through to permanent housing or permanent supportive housing. The paths are as follows:
- Outreach intake assesment to emergency shelter:
- to permanent housing or permanent supportive housing; or
- to transitional housing to permanent housing or permanent supportive housing; or
- to transitional housing to supportive services to permanent supportive housing.
Slide 3:
Establish a Community Process
- Organizational Structure
- Inclusive Participation
- All Subpopulations
- Year Round Process
- Active Involvement of All
Slide 4:
This slide shows an image with several items pointed towards the center which reads, "Planning/Coordinating Councils." The items are as follows:
- Veterans Services
- Mental Illness
- Faith-based Organizations
- Housing Developers
- Service Providers
- Homeless Persons
- Neighborhood Groups
- Local and State Government
- Foundations
- HIV/AIDS
- Business
Slide 5:
Developing A Comprehensive System
- Address All Sub-populations:
- Veterans
- Persons living with mental illness
- Persons living with HIV/AIDS
- Substance abusers
- Victims of domestic violence
- Other
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Gaps and Priorities
Need - Current Inventory = Continuum of Care Gaps
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Set Priorities for Funding
- Develop Projects Based on Gaps
- Prioritize Projects
- Rational Process
- Use Criteria
- Ensure Fairness
- Include Nonprofits
Slide 8:
Supplemental Resources
- Leverage HUD Project Funding
- Secure Mainstream Funding
- Other HUD
- Other Federal
- State and Local
- Private, Foundation
Slide 9:
What We Know About Continuum of Care
- Nearly 90% of the US population covered
- Responsible for the development of over 160,000 total beds
- Of those, 45,000 are permanent housing beds
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What We Know About Continuum of Care- (cont’d)
- Has helped over 400,000 formerly homeless individuals and families obtain either transitional or permanent housing
- Annually leverages nearly $2 in non-McKinney Act money for each $1 awarded in the competition
Slide 11:
2002 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
- $950 million
- Applications submitted by 471 Continuums of Care
- Applicants proposed nearly 4,000 projects
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The NOFA is a vehicle to effect change
- Overall changes made in 2002:
- less emphasis on process
- more emphasis on ending chronic homelessness
- more emphasis on linking to mainstream supportive services
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Overall changes made in 2002: (cont’d)
- more emphasis on housing
- more emphasis on performance
Slide 14:
Each Continuum of Care Must Provide:
- A system-wide strategy to:
- identify eligible homeless persons
- enroll them in each mainstream service program for which they are eligible
- ensure they receive benefits
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Each Project Applicant Must Provide:
- A plan that ensures all clients are assisted to:
- identify mainstream programs for which they are eligible
- enroll them in those programs
- ensure they obtain benefits
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Mainstream Programs Targeted
- Medicaid
- TANF
- SSI
- State CHIP
- Workforce Investment Act
- Food Stamps
- Veterans Health Care
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Actions Suggested for Applicants
- Case managers accompany clients in making application
- Formal service agreements between providers and local mainstream program offices
- Single intake form to determine eligibility
- Train mainstream staff to do outreach
- Mobile-support teams
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Why is it important to make use of mainstream services programs to end chronic homelessness?
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2 Types of Federal Service Funds:
--Targeted homeless programs
--Mainstream programs
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2 Types of Federal service funds:--Targeted homeless programs:
$2 billion
--Mainstream programs
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Targeted Homeless – $2 billion:
-- HUD: $1 billion
-- Other Federal agencies: $1 billion
(HHS, VA, DOL, FEMA, USDA, Ed)
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Targeted Homeless:
HUD’s $1 billion:
-- $500m housing
-- $500m services
Slide 23:
HUD Targeted Homeless
$500m services
75,000 hsg units
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Federal service funds:
--HUD Targeted: $ .5 billion
--Mainstream: $975+ billion
Slide 25:
Federal Mainstream Service Funds
SSA
$450+ billion
HHS
400+
VA
47
DOL
44
USDA
34
TOTAL
$975+ billion
Slide 26:
Mainstream programs underused
-- SSDI
5%
-- SSI
13%
-- Medicaid
16%
-- Food Stamps
19%
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Challenges using mainstream programs:
-- State budgets!
-- Many needy populations
-- Takes effort
Slide 28:
How can we “tweak” mainstream programs?
$.5 b = 1/1000 of $975 b
Slide 29:
How can we “tweak” mainstream programs?
-- Simplified, consolidated appl.
-- Specific outreach to homeless
-- Central intake/assessment
-- More….
Slide 30:
Consider how you can tweak your mainstream programs to help the poorest of the poor!