HOME’s Post

In San Mateo County, families are searching for the "village" it takes to raise a child—but many are overwhelmed by the challenge of navigating complex systems and services. Our new blog post shares insights from The State of Young Children and Families in San Mateo County, gathered through our recent strategic planning and community engagement processes. From our Baby Bonus research, 61% of Medi-Cal eligible families reported struggles with navigating available support systems. The challenges are clear: knowing what’s available, understanding eligibility, and facing endless forms and delayed responses. Navigating systems was one of the top 3 barriers families reported during our strategic planning meetings. First 5 San Mateo County is working to create a streamlined, supportive system for every family. Read more in our latest blog! https://lnkd.in/gJFq5rUP

Terra's housing supports are highlighted in Children and Youth Services Review. ***Abstract Providing support to address the systemic barriers that teen families face is a logical step toward improving their health and well-being. One area where teen families face multiple obstacles is accessing safe, secure, affordable housing. This paper describes a unique, innovative model of supportive housing developed in combination with wraparound supports, provided to teen parents in Edmonton, Canada. ***Highlights • Supportive housing can be combined with wraparound supports for teen families. • Collaborative partnerships are key to offering teen families supportive housing. • Supportive housing needs to balance structure with trauma-informed responsivity. The research that goes behind these publications shines a bright light on the value of our work in the community. We are grateful for our Successful Families partners, Brentwood Community Development Group and the team of researchers and participants who made this publication possible. Full article: https://lnkd.in/gAcANzen

Hot take: You won’t get help if you don’t ask for it—both in life and in communities. Let’s rethink why we join communities. If we’re not planning to actively participate, we’re not just wasting our money—we’re also undervaluing the time and efforts of community managers. Commit to being an active participant or reconsider your involvement in communities you are part of. #community #CommunityBuilding

CRCHC has received $10,000 from the Kannapolis Community Development Block Grant to provide uninsured and underinsured Kannapolis residents between the ages of 19 - 64 with access to oral health and surgical-related services. To learn more about the income requirements, click here: https://shorturl.at/aSd8r

NCHV Encourages You to Join Friendship Place’s Anti-Racism Training Series 🌟 At NCHV, we believe in the importance of addressing systemic issues that contribute to veteran homelessness. That’s why we encourage you to participate in Friendship Place’s upcoming Anti-Racism Training series, which will explore the deep-rooted connections between racism and housing insecurity. 🗓 First session: "Defining Racism and Its Impact on Housing Insecurity" 📅 September 18, 12 PM ET 📍 Virtual Event – https://buff.ly/4dQ9Myt 🎤 Featuring: Sal Corbin, PhD, Training Coordinator, Maryland Harm Reduction Institute Alan Banks, Community Engagement Associate, Friendship Place Topics include: Historical and modern data illustrating racism’s impact on housing policy. Institutional racism in housing, including redlining and racial covenants. Data linking systemic racism to housing insecurity. Alan Banks will share insights into laws affecting housing insecurity and his own experience with homelessness. 🗣 The session concludes with a 15-minute Q&A, allowing you to engage directly with experts. This is an important conversation for all housing advocates and service providers. Click here to register.https://buff.ly/4dQ9Myt Explore the full schedule of the series at: https://buff.ly/3XFeGbU

In the past several months, members of our staff and leadership have been working hard to create a new mission statement for Friends of the Family that encompasses all that we are striving to do in the communities we serve. So, without further ado, check out our new mission statement: "We are ending homelessness by leading with the Housing First approach, driving systemic change through strong community partnerships, and providing individualized support that prioritizes client choice." Our 10-year vision continues to be the same: Everyone Has a Home. Through this vision, we seek to have a future where no one has to wait to receive services or enter into programming. A future where everyone can find a safe, permanent place to call home. #NewMissionStatement #EveryoneHasAHome #CheckItOut #Vision

Community Futures East Kootenay is proud to announce that over the past three years we have increased our profile in communities with several initiatives contributing to a reinvigorated reputation. We have invested in Community Economic Development (CED) by increasing our direct work with other community organizations to address unique community challenges. We continue to deliver value to local businesses through our lending and connecting entrepreneurs with other business resources. We loaned an impressive $4 million over the last three years. Link for report in the comments! #CommunityFutures #StrategicPlan #EastKootenays #EconomicDevelopment #EastKootenays

NCHV Encourages You to Join Friendship Place’s Anti-Racism Training Series 🌟 At NCHV, we believe in the importance of addressing systemic issues that contribute to veteran homelessness. That’s why we encourage you to participate in Friendship Place’s upcoming Anti-Racism Training series, which will explore the deep-rooted connections between racism and housing insecurity. 🗓 First session: "Defining Racism and Its Impact on Housing Insecurity" 📅 September 18, 12 PM ET 📍 Virtual Event – https://buff.ly/4dQ9Myt 🎤 Featuring: Sal Corbin, PhD, Training Coordinator, Maryland Harm Reduction Institute Alan Banks, Community Engagement Associate, Friendship Place Topics include: Historical and modern data illustrating racism’s impact on housing policy. Institutional racism in housing, including redlining and racial covenants. Data linking systemic racism to housing insecurity. Alan Banks will share insights into laws affecting housing insecurity and his own experience with homelessness. 🗣 The session concludes with a 15-minute Q&A, allowing you to engage directly with experts. This is an important conversation for all housing advocates and service providers. Click here to register.https://buff.ly/4dQ9Myt Explore the full schedule of the series at: https://buff.ly/3XFeGbU

Homeless employment - and social mobility recruitment more broadly - not only relieves destitution, but has the potential to prevent it too. Seven years after our work on HI Future started, it's so encouraging to see major sides being taken by government and social sector partners to help those impacted find security and stability back into employment. I'm in awe at the Centre for Homelessness Impact. My hope is that, as this work deepens, that the focus on organisational transformation matches that to enable personal and professional progress. You can lead as many people as you like to get back into work, but unless the cultural perceptions, structural meritocracy and personal propensity of employers to support people healing from trauma back into work is addressed, the long-term sustainability of such programmes are likely to be compromised. Where are you seeing employers do the discomforting, internal work to open up space for people who've experienced the world diffferently?

We Need Community Connections Connections build empathy and solidarity, and these commitments create supportive and protective communities. Everyone needs this, especially when we face difficult challenges. Hugh Hollowell, founder and director of Love Wins Ministries in North Carolina, says that the opposite is homelessness isn’t a house. The real opposite of homelessness is community. Because when we extend our community relationships to include others, it is less likely that someone will experience homelessness. People often lose access to shelter because they’ve lost relationships. We all need community support and care – when we’ve lost a job, when we’ve lost a loved one, when we’ve begun a transition, when we've received a diagnosis, when we have mental health needs, when we have financial needs, when we have a deportation order, when we don’t know where our next meal is coming from. Does someone come to mind when you read this list? Can you reach out to them so that their access to community ties are strong? Do you find yourself on that list? Do you know that you’re worth support and belonging? You are. Here's an invitation to reach out someone and let them know how you’re really doing. Community is an intrinsic good, and we all need it.