Ending homelessness is both radical and simple - radical in the sense that Guilford County can END a social problem in our community, yet simple in that it recognizes a home as the beginning point for building our lives.
Guilford County is a service rich community, full of service providers committed to helping end homelessness. Goals of the Partnership include fostering teamwork between providers, enhancing awareness of and access to available services, and the creation of new partnerships through agency collaborations.
We believe that through strong partnerships and a coordinated effort on the part of businesses, social service agencies, the faith community and all citizens, Guilford County will be a community that ends homelessness. It will take all of us. Get involved.
Partners Ending Homelessness supports the development of an effective service system by functioning as the hub for information sharing and training about issues related to homelessness. We actively seek to serve as the central resource for real-time community-level data allowing for findings to be shared with appropriate stakeholders, including public and private service providers, funders and policy makers in the region to identify and promote new ways to respond to homelessness.
Guilford County became the 210th community nationwide to commit to develop a Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. On June 4, 2007, the comprehensive Ten Year Plan, aimed at improving the quality of life for all residents of Guilford County by ending chronic homelessness and reducing all other types of homelessness by 2016, was unveiled to the public.
Almost 60 people walked Wednesday night from the Interactive Resource Center to Grace Community Church as a part of the national commemoration of homeless people who died in 2011. But the number and names of homeless people for whom they were marching was uncertain.
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On December 20, 2011, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan awarded $1.47 billion to renew funding to more than 7,100 local homeless programs operating across the country. This funding will ensure that housing and service programs remain operating in 2012, which is essential to the Obama Administration's strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. Partners Ending Homelessness has secured $1,570,421 to support 14 programs for 10 agencies in Guilford County.
[Local summary of grants
HUD's Press Release]
January Provider Coalition Meeting: Kay Johnson from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Housing and Homelessness will share how Provider Coalition organizations can become Approved Referral Agencies within the targeting and the Key Program. The goal of targeting and the Key Program is to provide housing opportunities for persons with disabilities who face housing barriers beyond financial ones. Eligible targeting and Key Program candidates likely need ongoing access to supportive services to obtain and maintain housing in the community. This information will assist Continuum of Care efforts to provide housing options for those who are Chronically Homeless.
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