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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Financial Assistance for Low-Income Residents Impacted by COVID-19
The Santa Clara County Homelessness Prevention System has temporary financial assistance available to help low-income residents who have lost income and are unable to pay rent as a result of COVID-related impacts. Read more »
Are you in need of assistance?
Visit the Sacred Heart Community Service website for eligibility criteria and instructions for how to apply:
sacredheartcs.org
Help struggling families
Help pay for rent, groceries and other basic needs. Donate through the Silicon Valley Strong Fund (and designate your gift for "residents"):
www.SiliconValleyStrong.org
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
April 6
Telethon seeks to replenish depleted Silicon Valley coronavirus fund
After an $11 million coronavirus relief fund ran out of money in just three days, Silicon Valley businesses and nonprofits…
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March 30
An Update on Our Efforts to Assist Unsheltered & Low-Income Residents
You can view an online version of this article at: https://mailchi.mp/destinationhomesv/covid-19-update-march30 Addressing COVID-19 in our Homeless Community Over the past…
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March 27
Three days after launch, $11 million Santa Clara County coronavirus relief fund runs out of money
They knew the need was intense, but no one suspected it was this bad. Just three days after its launch,…
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QUESTIONS?
We welcome questions or comments.
