The City of Sacramento, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, Sacramento Steps Forward, and the County of Sacramento are collaborating to keep you informed about our collective efforts to address Sacramento homelessness. This newsletter features results from the 2022 Point-In-Time Count and housing program updates. | |
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The Sacramento PIT Count is a community-wide endeavor that is usually conducted every other year. It provides a snapshot of the numbers of people experiencing homelessness on a single night. In the newly available “Homelessness in Sacramento” report, CSU Sacramento’s Division of Social Work and Center for Health Practice, Policy & Research estimate that 9,278 individuals were experiencing homelessness from the PIT Count completed on February 23-24, 2022–which is up 67% from 2019.
Despite this increase in homelessness, there is a notable incline in the number of sheltered families with children as well as a decrease in veteran homelessness. Once more, we would like to sincerely thank the community and our PIT Count volunteers who helped us collect important data to inform our future work in Sacramento.
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The Sacramento Local Homeless Action Plan (LHAP) aims to create a cross-jurisdictional unified approach to addressing homelessness across Sacramento County. This three-year plan was developed in partnership with Sacramento Steps Forward, Sacramento City and County Continuum of Care, Sacramento County, City of Sacramento and the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency.
The LHAP provides a roadmap for future funding and outlines key system components. Through these efforts, homelessness in the County over time can become preventable whenever possible, brief, and non-recurring.
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The Sacramento City & County Continuum of Care was recently awarded $866,498 by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) through the Family Homelessness Challenge Grant to create a Family Collaborative Strategy to expand our capacity to collect real time quality data on families experiencing or imminently at risk of homelessness, develop shared goals and strategies across systems of care to address family homelessness, and build cross-agency case conferencing by using an established quality by name list of homeless families in our community. This funding will enable us to partner with the Black Child Legacy Campaign to address the racial disparities of those experiencing homelessness, particularly among the Black/African American community, which fully aligns with the Racial Equity Action Plan.
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The Biden Administration through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released early last week a first-of-its-kind package of resources to address unsheltered homelessness and homeless encampments. Through this Special NOFO, HUD will award funding to communities to implement coordinated approaches--grounded in Housing First and public health principles--to reduce the prevalence of unsheltered homelessness and improve services, health outcomes, and housing stability among highly vulnerable unsheltered individuals and families.
The Sacramento CoC is eligible for up to $10 million through this Special NOFO process and the NOFO application is due in October 2022. More information on the process will be provided in the upcoming weeks.
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The Coordinated Access System (CAS) facilitates the coordination and management of resources and services through the crisis response system. CAS allows users to connect people efficiently and effectively to interventions that aim to rapidly resolve their housing crisis by increasing accessibility to resources and supporting households whenever possible. The CAS team's goals are to reduce the number of households who experience homelessness and housing instability and to ensure that episodes of homelessness that do occur are rare, brief, and one-time. | |
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California has been able to reopen with the availability of COVID-19 vaccines. However, the state is continuing to promote public health and safety practices (e.g., testing, masking, handwashing) in preparation for future surges and variants. To help our community live safely, SSF is offering programs with COVID-19 testing kits and face masks at no cost.
We have two kinds of COVID-19 at-home antigen rapid tests for which the FDA has authorized an extended shelf life; iHealth kits through September 30, 2022 and AccessBio kits through December 31, 2022. If your program is in need of COVID-19 testing kits and masks and can utilize these limited resources by these dates, please contact Kathreen Daria to coordinate pickup at the SSF office ASAP.
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding $72 million to build systems to end youth homelessness in 25 local communities, including 8 rural communities. HUD’s Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) will support a wide range of housing programs including rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, and host homes. The Sacramento CoC submitted our application on June 28, 2022 in partnership with our Youth Action Board (YAB) and Homeless Youth Task Force (HYTF). As a next step, we anticipate hearing back from HUD on a funding decision no later than the end of September. If you have YHDP questions for which you’d like us to follow up, please email Jesse Archer, CoC Analyst. | |
The Sacramento Homeless Policy Council (SHPC)–including elected officials and Sacramento’s Continuum of Care leaders–will come together on Friday, August 12 from 10AM to 12PM to engage in broad-based, collaborative, and strategic discussions in response to Sacramento’s homelessness crisis. Please RSVP today and stay tuned for an agenda! | |
The interactive Public Dashboard provides population and demographic information about people experiencing homelessness in Sacramento. Data is now updated through March 31, 2022. See our website for the latest counts, counts by living situation, entries, and exits. | |
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Antoinette Carter is Interim Executive Director at Consumers Self Help Center where outreach teams inform the community about various services and facilitate life skills training. Read about Antoinette, the Self Help Center, and how she feels about collaborative work in Sacramento!
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Our Staff is expanding! Please help us welcome Shaitra Ken, Krisi Kuchlenz, and Michael Colton. They will all play instrumental roles in establishing community roots, onboarding and recruitment, and financials monitoring. | |
We’re hiring! We have openings in several departments and are currently accepting applications including for a number of new CAS-related openings. We highly encourage you to browse our job postings and to share with your networks. Make sure to read the postings for instructions and submit your application package to jobs@sacstepsforward.org. | | |
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We are monitoring available trainings and hosting community learning events to support the continued training and development of Sacramento professionals working in homelessness.
Browse upcoming trainings and access our previous discussions. Sessions denoted with “*” are SSF hosted and/or co-hosted sessions.
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