Title
Grant Application - HUD Youth Homelessness System Improvement (YHSI) Grants
Action
ACTION:
A) Affirm the submission of two grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the Continuum of Care program:
1) Grant for up to $400,000 for the year 06/01/2024 - 12/01/2026 to develop community-wide partnerships to better identify and understand the needs of youth at-risk of or experiencing homelessness. (Youth Planning and Partnerships)
2) Grant for up to $300,000 for the year 06/01/2024 - 12/01/2026 to support the technical, legal, and planning costs associated with creating data matches or data integration between different data collection sources. (Youth Data)
B) If awarded, recognize, receive and appropriate the multi-year award amount to the General Grants Funds (G001) within Community Support Services; and
C) Adopt grant project ordinances for the two grants in the General Grant Fund (G001).
Staff Contact: Stacy M. Lowry, Community Support Services Department
Presentation: No
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION:
The Youth Planning and Partnerships grant will support the development of community-wide partnerships to better identify and understand the needs of youth at-risk of or experiencing homelessness. Additional activities that will be supported by this funding include community training in best practices for prevention or quickly resolving youth homelessness as well as identifying exit strategies from youth-systems such as child welfare and juvenile justice.
The Youth Data grant funds will support the implementation of a data collection system to improve the community's current response system for youth homelessness by funding the technical, legal, and planning costs associated with creating data matches or data integration between different data collection sources, such as the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and school district data.
The application to HUD was submitted by Community Su...
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