Regional Taskforce Homelessness Diversion Fund
Grant supports the launch of the RTFH Diversion Fund, a rapid response effort that deploys service providers to assist recently unhoused people identify immediate support and long-term housing.
East County Homelessness Taskforce
Funds expand the ECHTF Advisory Board to include a member with lived experience to share insights while gaining valuable leadership and networking benefits.
Shared Housing Palooza Kick-Off Event
Grant enables multiple homeless-serving organizations to collaborate on launch event to exchange information on shared housing, introduce potential housemates, with a goal of housing 100 people currently experiencing homelessness.
Destination Home Lived Experience Conference
Funding empowers four San Diegans with lived experience by supporting their participation in The National Lived Experience Conference where they join activists and local leaders in mobilizing to end homelessness.
Narrative Change Campaign
Supports campaign to train activists to spark meaningful dialogue in live and online conversations, correcting misconceptions, providing accurate information, and building community.
2023
Funding supports broadening the reach of community engagement and advocacy efforts led by those with lived experience with homelessness.
Lived Experience Advisers
Grant supports the establishment of advocacy organization that centers people with lived experience as experts in the housing justice movement, and offers compensation for their contributions.
Regional Taskforce Homelessness Diversion Fund
Grant supports the launch of the RTFH Diversion Fund, a rapid response effort that deploys service providers to assist recently unhoused people identify immediate support and long-term housing.
Shared Housing Institute Trainings
Grant enables the Shared Housing Institute to facilitate intensive trainings for homeless advocacy organizations. These workshops expand skills in landlord engagement, negotiating tactics, and building community.
Humble Design
Funding supports the development of a survey tool that measures the impact of Humble Design services, which provide home interiors and design for people emerging from homelessness.
2022
Narrative Change Campaign – Phase 2
Support extends public awareness campaign promoting housing as the proven solution to homelessness. “Ending Homelessness Begins With a Home” theme amplified through traditional and social media.
San Diego Community College District
Funds help develop housing for low-income students experiencing homelessness, or at-risk of homelessness, by conducting a population analysis, high-level site analysis, and high-level financial feasibility analysis.
Lived Experience Advisers Speaker’s Bureau
Funding supports the development of a speakers’ bureau to advocate for solutions to homelessness by spotlighting those with lived experience and promoting permanent housing.
Townspeople and Adjoin Shared Housing Collaborative
Grant provides funding and support to launch pilot program to implement and expand shared housing opportunities for people experiencing homelessness in San Diego.
2021
Lived Experience Advisers
Grant supports the establishment of advocacy organization that centers people with lived experience as experts in the housing justice movement, and offers compensation for their contributions.
Funding supports broadening the reach of community engagement and advocacy efforts led by those with lived experience with homelessness.
Grant provides funding for San Diego’s homeless choir to develop a community engagement and public policy advocacy element to its current program.
National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference
Grant covers conference attendance for advocates with lived experience to learn about proven strategies, emerging challenges, and innovative ways to end homelessness.
City Heights Community Development
Funding supports the expansion of eviction prevention educational materials needed due to the increase in community need caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020
Regional Task Force on the Homeless
Grant support to implement and expand the regional Flexible Housing Pool and promote expanded uptake of shared housing strategies beyond initial toolkit development funded by FTEHSD.
Interfaith Community Services
Funds designated to strengthen Homeless Prevention Flex Funding data, and dramatically upgrade Interfaith’s ability to use data to track and improve the performance across all programs.
YIGBY
Funds pre-development costs to support a proof of concept project to build affordable housing on faith-based property leveraging an innovative finance model.
2019
LeSar Development Consultant
To support the design and development of the San Diego Shared Housing Toolkit and Training Project led by LeSar Development Consultants.
11 Community Leadership Scholarships
To engage more people with lived experience of homelessness in developing the Homeless Crisis Response System, FTEHSD offered 11 individuals an opportunity to participate in a national conference and an orientation on the homelessness system.
Homeless-Experienced Advocacy & Leadership (HEAL) Network
The HEAL Network seeks to create and establish a network of trained leaders with lived experience of homelessness to be advocates on policy discussions regarding solutions to homelessness.
Voices of our City Choir
Support community engagement and advocacy to advance public policies that measurably reduce homelessness through the Voices of Our Community Thinking Dignity – Real Time Advocacy project.
2018
San Diego Youth Services
To support the organization’s staff capacity in hiring a Youth System Director who oversees the youth ending homelessness activities system development and coordination.
Veterans Homeless Navigator
This project provides veterans one-on-one support to navigate the veteran and homelessness system to effectively match them with and give access to housing that meets their needs.
Crisis House
Grant support for the New Journey Joint Transition/Rapid Rehousing program that provides safe housing to women and their minor children who are fleeing domestic violence situations.
2017
Regional Task Force on the Homeless
Supports RTFH’s staff leadership build capacity for the Homeless Response System, a system of providers who provide housing and support services to people experiencing homelessness.
Child Welfare Services – County of San Diego
Flexible funding to the “Bringing Families Home” program, which provides rental assistance and housing placement to reunify children with their parents.
2016
Regional Continuum of Care
General operating funds to support staff capacity
Alliance for Regional Solutions
Support for the Coordinated Assessment and Housing Placement system (CAHP) Coordinator and CAHP Matcher staff positions.
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