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The Way Home is made up of more than 100 partners from all areas of the community, including homeless service agencies, local governments, public housing authorities, the local Veterans Affairs office, and other nonprofits and community stakeholders. The partners of The Way Home work to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in our region. As lead agency to The Way Home, the Coalition hosts regular forums for CoC member agencies, HMIS participating agencies, and people with lived experience to share information and receive recommendations and input for the CoC Steering Committee. HMIS allows the aggregation of client-level data across homeless service agencies to generate unduplicated counts and service patterns of clients accessing services. The Department of Housing & Urban Development’s National Data and Technical Standards establish baseline standards for participation, data collection, privacy, and security. Implementation of HMIS is a requirement for receipt of HUD McKinney-Vento funding.
The Way Home Steering Committee is seeking At-Large Steering Committee Representatives. Among other duties, At-Large committee members should be able to help identify and leverage non-housing funds and expertise in the systems in which they work to help advance the region-wide effort to make homelessness rare, brief and nonrecurring. Eichenbaum describes the many steps it takes to secure housing and other services for any one person or family.
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Applications must demonstrate broad community participation and identify resources and gaps in the community’s approach to providing permanent housing and other critical services that address homelessness. The Homeless Management Information System is a computerized data collection tool specifically designed to capture client-level, system-wide information over time on the characteristics and services needs of people experiencing homelessness. The Homeless Management Information System is a computerized data collection tool specifically designed to capture client-level, system-wide information over time on the characteristics and services needs of men, women, and children experiencing homelessness. Currently, more than 100 partners are collaborating through The Way Home to implement programs that are all based on a Housing First model.
While some were figuring out housing, others were addressing the emergency needs for social services, medicine, food, and clothing. This group, seeing the need beyond emergency relief, began calling themselves The Way Home. Traveling through America's cities, the photographers for The Way Home have recorded homelessness not as a general social condition or charged political issue, but as a personal predicament with which real men and women grapple. From Miami to Seattle, Houston to Chicago, New York to Los Angeles, these artists document homelessness and its solutions with compassionate and incisive eyes.
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This project featured a startling diversity of Americans affected by homelessness — mothers and children, veterans and runaways, victims of eviction, layoffs and mental illness. The Way Home, by contrast, not only depicts the problems of homelessness but also explores and focuses on lasting solutions. In either case, in their request, the speaker must inform the lead agency of which action item they wish to speak about by citing the resolution number, if applicable. I listen to ‘On The Way Home’ podcast to hear the latest on efforts to end homelessness from the smartest and hardest working people from across Canada and the world.
This unique collaboration is led by the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, Santa Clara County Housing Authority, in partnership with a consortium of local non-profit service providers. Federal and local veteran housing programs, which provide rental subsidies and case managers to help homeless veterans secure housing. Strategy oversight meetings will occur a few times a year and take a deeper dive into the data and work done at the client and programmatic level. Business meetings occur throughout the year and focus on administrative tasks, funding updates, implementation updates, and system resolutions.
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Organizers said volunteers prepare and deliver meals to the public refrigerators three to four times a week. "The food they put in here be good food. It's not garbage. It's some nice stuff in there," said Delk. "It's a wonderful thing to have people doing stuff like that for us. There's a lot of people sleeping out on the streets out here." She bought food out of her own pocket and cooked the hot meals for the program.
Often, elected local leaders want to focus on other issues, thus that focus on addressing homelessness is no longer there, Eichenbaum said. It’s also important for communities to use a common approach and understanding of priorities and needs, with deep communication between teams that may be seeing the same person for different services, she said. “This type of coordination allows for real-time problem-solving when challenges arise,” Oliva said. Before The Way Home, there were voids in Houston’s homelessness system, and other efforts were being duplicated, said Eichenbaum.
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For example, some service providers had to drop programs that they had offered for decades because they were being duplicated within the new system. Through The Way Home, the city, surrounding counties and service providers and agencies operating in the region work together to quickly place those living on the street into housing and provide them with the services they need to thrive and remain housed long term. In 2011 a group of concerned social service representatives, county officials, nonprofit representatives, and religious leaders met to address the need to relocate and house people from a Lower Bucks County homeless encampment that was being cleared out by local authorities.
Taking the time to understand the work and successes of other communities inspires me to redouble my efforts as well. On the Way Home” (I was the first guest of the podcast’s predecessor “Out Of The Blue”) is a wonderfully informative podcast on homelessness and the issues surrounding it. Great care is taken when speaking with those with lived and living homelessness experience, as well as world experts. Rarely does one come across a podcast with such depth and production value. And often, a strategy to address homelessness that one mayoral administration champions is not necessarily prioritized by the next.
Federally funded programs require verification of the applicant’s income and any disability as well as verification that the person is homeless. Service providers must find available housing units, help the person fill out applications, and find money that will pay for the rent, supportive services and case management. The application will collect information on the applicant, the applicant's organization, programs, services, access, and more. The information provided may be made available as a resource within our CoC (e.g., on The Way Home website as part of a list of resources for people experiencing homelessness seeking assistance).
Federal funds are also provided through Emergency Solutions Grant and Community Development Block Grant funds. The Coalition also works to source other federal, state, local, and private dollars to meet the needs of people and families experiencing homelessness. The Chair has the authority to open and close the public speaking portion of each action item on the agenda to ensure the meeting continues to move along at a reasonable pace. Blessington Street is part of the 13 Houses Campaign, a service opened in 2015 as a Cold Weather Initiative to give a humanitarian response to homelessness during the coldest months of the year. In addition, evening meals, breakfast and access to shower facilities are provided all year round.
With The Way Home’s coordination, those performing duplicate work were asked to shift their efforts to fill some of the identified service gaps, he said. The purpose of the HMIS forum is to inform the HMIS community about recent data trends, ongoing system-wide activities, and important developments regarding HMIS and our software ClientTrack. The Way Home is the collaborative model to prevent and end homelessness in Houston, and throughout Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery County, Texas. Its goals are to understand the size and scope of the problem of homelessness in our community, and to design effective strategies and solutions to address the problem. Membership in the CoC ensures community wide commitment to preventing and ending homelessness and must represent a diverse body of stakeholders throughout the entire geographic area of the CoC. The intent is that the CoC be as inclusive as possible, to include the opinions and insights of various parties.
As we look to the future and usher in 2021, it is with the hope that this documentary series' message will remain at the forefront of our minds and hearts. But by working together, we can end veteran homelessness in Santa Clara County. Partnerships to quickly match veterans in-need with newly-available housing units. As COVID patients have flooded into LAC+USC in recent weeks, they’ve put an immense strain on its ICU capacity and staff — especially since non-COVID patients, with gunshot wounds, drug overdoses, heart attacks and strokes, also need intensive care.
Those interested in becoming formally involved with The Way Home need to complete the partner application below. Each applicant should select a primary leadership contact to complete the membership update/application. The following questions were developed to provide the Coalition for the Homeless, the lead agency to The Way Home Continuum of Care , more information on organizations wishing to become members of The Way Home CoC and participate in membership . “Thinking about housing and homelessness jointly sounds intuitive, but in practice, the agencies and experts that focus on each are often siloed away from each other at the local level,” said House. As we gather power to win our campaigns, the Way Home provides direct service to people living outside.
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