Destination: Home is a public-private partnership that uses collective impact strategies to accomplish its mission of ending homelessness in Santa Clara County.
Destination: Work
Destination: Home is forging
pathways to employment.
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Homelessness Prevention
We are committed to making homelessness
rare, brief and non-recurring.
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Need help?
Call Family Supportive Housing at: (408) 926-8885
Email: housinginfo@sacredheartcs.org
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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Destination: Home stands with the many organizations leading the fight to eradicate the structural racism - and we’re committed to advancing this fundamental objective in everything we do.
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Need Help Paying Rent?
Low-income Santa Clara County residents who have been financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic can receive help paying rent. Assistance is available through two separate, but complementary programs:
- The statewide CA COVID-19 Rent Relief program, and
- The Santa Clara County Homelessness Prevention System, which is focused on assisting our community’s lowest-income residents.
Please visit SCCRentHelp.org or call 2-1-1 for specific eligibility criteria, information on how to apply, and to be connected to community partners who are available to help residents fill out applications.
Coming Together to Assist
Vulnerable Residents
Since the pandemic began, Destination: Home has helped lead a coalition of public and private partners to provide approximately $36 million in assistance to roughly 15,000 households in-need. Learn more about our COVID relief efforts
You Can Help Struggling Families
in Our Community
Help pay for rent, groceries and other basic needs by donating to our COVID-19 financial assistance initiative:
Make an Online Donation
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, close to 10,000 of our neighbors are without a home on any given night – but this is not a reality we have to accept.
By working together, we can end homelessness in Silicon Valley, And the roadmap for achieving this ambitious goal is the 2020-2025 Community Plan to End Homelessness – which outlines a three pronged approach to addressing this crisis:
Strategy 1
Address the root causes of homelessness through system and policy change
Strategy 2
Expand homelessness prevention and housing programs to meet the need
Strategy 3
Improve quality of life for unsheltered individuals and create healthy neighborhoods for allTHE 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
July 23
Preventing Homelessness in Our Community
$42 million has gone to 15,530 families throughout the pandemic Our latest phase of rent relief launched in May, and…
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July 17
Destination: Home & Lived Experience Advisory Board featured on PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour visited Silicon Valley to learn how lived expertise is helping address homelessness. Watch the full story, featuring our…
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July 15
Apple spends $1 billion of $2.5 billion effort to fight California housing crisis
Apple has spent $1 billion of its $2.5 billion pledge to improve housing access in California, with money going to assist first-time…
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QUESTIONS?
We welcome questions or comments.
