Incubating New Programs
At Destination: Home, we are focused on advancing solutions that will deliver true systemic change. So, in addition to scaling proven strategies for addressing homelessness in our community, we also help incubate new ideas that can help us achieve our collective goals.
In this role, we help design new programs and initiatives, bring funders and service partners on board, evaluate performance and results, and then work with system partners to scale and sustain these efforts.
Pilot initiatives and programs currently underway include:
Homelessness Prevention System
This countywide system provides emergency financial assistance and key services to help at-risk residents remain stably housed.
HEADING HOME
This community-wide campaign leverages four key strategies to end family homelessness by 2025.
Guaranteed Income
This 2-year project is designed to help participants achieve housing stability and greater independence over their lives, finances and future.
Our Past Initiatives
The data and insights from several past initiatives are improving how we end and prevent homelessness in Santa Clara County. Read more about some of the programs we’ve helped launch over the past decade:
Housing 1000
This 3-year pilot proved its possible to end homelessness with housing, while demonstrating the cost effectiveness of housing and laying the foundation for communitywide Housing First policies.
All the Way Home
A community campaign to end veteran homelessness, convening public, private and nonprofit partners to ultimately house more veterans than those becoming homeless.
COVID-19 Response
A large coalition of public and private partners quickly pivoted early in the pandemic to prevent a massive wave of new homelessness, providing $85M to nearly 20,000 at-risk households.
