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“We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.” - Audre Lorde

May 12, 2025

(313) 305 - 0311

CAM Call Line Operating hours:

Monday through Friday, 8am - 6pm

Visit camdetroit.org for the latest information on CAM services and any upcoming closures.

Access to CAM services: Call CAM at (313) 305 - 0311 or go to one of the following Access Points for in-person assessments.

For regular updates, subscribe to the CAM newsletter.

Grand Opening of The Residences at St. Matthew

May 7 - In a major step toward addressing the housing needs in our community, Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan celebrated the grand opening of The Residences at St. Matthew. The Residences is an affordable housing development aimed at providing housing for low-income families and individuals. This project also includes permanent supportive housing for 25 formerly homeless households and ADA accessible units.

Learn more about the development and how you can apply here.

General Membership Meeting

May 20, 2025

Detroit CoC Membership Meetings are held every other month on the third Tuesday from 1:30 to 3:00 PM. These meetings are a chance for community members to stay informed, share feedback, and engage in conversations around key programs, initiatives, and strategies to end homelessness.

Visit our website for registration details, past agendas, and minutes.

We are asking our legislators to

• Use their voice and power to urge HUD to honor the FY24 funding awards that were announced in early January and expeditiously administer grant contracts and funding to our community and communities across the nation. 
• Vote no for any FY25 budget proposal that cuts HUD funding. Any cut of funding directly will result in people returning to homelessness and a shortage of resources to help them regain stability. 
• Fight against efforts to cut federal employees working for HUD as this will further slow-down the process to administer the FY24 grants that our community desperately needs.

How to Advocate

You can visit HAND's website for more information, a sample letter, our legislators' contact information, and more advocacy resources.

Detroit CoC Trainings

Upcoming

On Demand

LMS users have access to a wide range of trainings. The latest trainings are listed below.

• Human Trafficking 101
• Domestic Violence 101
• Coordinated Assessment Model (CAM) 101
• Continuum of Care (CoC) 101

The Continuum of Care (CoC) 101 educational video is also available on our YouTube channel here.

Building Transformative Facilitation in 2025

May 16, 2025 | 8:30am - 4:30pm

This in-person training introduces participants to an educational approach grounded in the Ruth Ellis Center's mission, vision, and specific principles of work: harm reduction, positive youth development, trauma-informed care, and restorative justice.

This transformation of education spaces is based in an approach that embodies; (1) engaging adult learning, which prioritizes the utilization of past experiences as an existing foundation to build upon; (2) dialectical learning, an approach that offers participants opportunities to deepen their understanding of problems, and critically linking them to previous experiences; (3) restorative approaches to the work, which allow participants to move through different values, beliefs and behaviors without facilitators freezing them in time, and (4) an engaged approach; moving away from lecture-based learning, by utilizing activities for continued reflection, analysis, and processing that supports diverse learning methods. We believe that all participants hold a piece of the truth, and participant engagement is central to a successful learning space.

Register here.

Engaging Tenants in Meaningful Feedback 

May 19, 2025 | 1pm

This webinar will discuss strategies and techniques to effectively engage tenants in providing meaningful feedback, in an effort to foster a more safe and collaborative environment that enhances the tenants’ experience, satisfaction, and community well-being. The training will specifically focus on the following strategies:

1. Planning and administering tenant surveys
2. Planning and facilitating tenant focus groups
3. Leading the creation of tenant-led advisory committees

Register for the training here.

Project Based Voucher Program

Waiting Lists Open

The Project Based Voucher Program (PBV Program) is designed to provide low and moderate-income individuals and families with housing assistance in specific units contracted with Detroit Housing Commission (DHC). The housing assistance is provided to income-eligible applicants who are approved for tenancy at the contracted location. You apply to the PBV location waiting list of your choice. The Project Based Assistance is only available to those selected and approved from the program site waiting list.

Visit the Detroit Housing Commission's website to apply.

THE STAKES ARE HIGH: PROTECT MEDICAID IN 2025

Medicaid is facing significant federal threats despite its undeniable benefits. Right now 76% of Michigan's Medicaid spending comes from federal dollars. But federal cuts to the program, which could exceed $2 trillion over the next decade, will result in devastating consequences for our state, its health systems and everyone who is covered by Medicaid. Urge Michigan's members of Congress to protect Medicaid so that everyone has access to the healthcare they need, regardless of their age, their ZIP code, their income or their identity. 

Find ways to contact your legislators on MLPP's website.

President Trump Released “Skinny” Budget Request Foreshadowing Severe Cuts to HUD in Full FY26 Request

Overall, the “skinny” request would not only slash funding to vital affordable housing and homelessness assistance programs, it would redesign some of these programs entirely. The proposal would slash $26.72 billion from HUD’s rental assistance programs – including Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs), Public Housing, Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA), Section 202 Housing for the Elderly, and Section 811 Housing for Persons with Disabilities – by combining them and block granting them into one program, State Rental Assistance Block Grants. The proposal is estimated to amount to an unprecedented 43% cut to HUD rental assistance, would impose a two-year time limit on receiving rental assistance for “able-bodied adults,' and 'encourage States to provide funding to share in the responsibility to ensure that similar levels of recipients can benefit from the block grant.'

• Read the full analysis here.
• Urge federal lawmakers to expand - not cut - investments in HUD programs in the FY26 spending bill here.

Urge Congress to Protect HUD Programs and Staff

Communities across the country rely on HUD funding for critical housing and homelessness programs, but the Trump administration plans to terminate half of all HUD staff.

Contact your senators and representatives and urge them to protect HUD programs and staff, and click here to add your organization to a national letter to Congress on this issue!

Sign onto NLIHC's letter here

Housing as a Public Good: The State of Social Housing Today

May 14, 2025 | 2pm EST

Join Shelterforce for a conversation on what social housing means in the US - its past, its future, and how we turn vision into action. Hear from organizers, Practitioners, and authors on building inclusive, caring communities for all.

Register for the webinar here.

2025 National Conference on Ending Homelessness

Jun 30 – Jul 2, 2025

2025 National Symposium on

Solutions to End Youth Homelessness

October 8 - 9, 2025

Each year, the Symposium brings together hundreds of youth leaders, advocates, service providers, researchers, funders, and policymakers from across the country. Together, we share bold strategies, celebrate progress, and advance community-driven solutions to end youth homelessness.

Registration details are available on Point Source Youth's website.

Detroit Health Department launches

Harm Reduction Wellness Stations

The Detroit Health Department’s Harm Reduction Wellness Stations provide free supplies to help prevent disease, reduce overdose risks, and make substance use safer. This initiative helps protect the health of Detroiters by giving residents the tools they need to stay safe. The Stations will supply items that support safer practices and overall health, such as:

• Naloxone Kits (Narcan)
• Test Strips
• Medication Deactivation Bags (Deterra Bags)

You can find more information about the stations along with a list of locations on the Detroit Department of Health's website.

Corktown Health Financial Assistance

The Housing and EFA programs provide emergency financial assistance to households experiencing utility shutoff (past due bills), eviction, need for assistance with first month’s rent for a new move. This type of assistance is designed to help clients living with HIV stay engaged or to reengage in medical care. When an applicant does not meet the criteria of our programs, we work with our network to connect the client to additional resources.

Must apply for "MDHHS SER" on MIBridges first.

Find out more about the program on Corktown Health's website.

DWIHN 24-Hour Helpline

1-800-241-4949

The Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN) offers 24-hour phone service for those seeking mental health support.

My Safe Space Crisis Hotline

For young adults (313) 844-9136. The MCHS hotline connects youth experiencing housing and mental health crises to short-term mental health services.

Rides to Care

Whether you're pregnant, a new mom, or a caregiver, you can get free rides to doctor appointments. This new Detroit Department of Health program provides transportation for prenatal and postpartum care up to the baby's first birthday.

Rides are available

• Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
• Saturday, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• Services are not available on holidays

To schedule a ride, call (313)876-0000

For more info, visit detroitmi.gov/ridestocare

This week we have a riddle to hem you in.

What has a thousand needles but cannot sew?

A porcupine!

Every Friday HAND intern, Abby Perrien, highlights Detroit Continuum of Care (CoC) organizations and their hard work and dedication to ending homelessness. You can find this series and much more by following our social media accounts.

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Do you have questions about the newsletter? Want to submit an item?

Email Kimberly Benton at kimberly@handetroit.org

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