June is Pride Month, so we have highlighted a list of local Sacramento resources for LGBTQ+ people and allies to use in celebrating and better understanding the community and its history. These resources include the Sacramento LGBT Community Center, the Lavender Library, the Pride Center @ CSUS, the Gender Health Center, PFLAG Sacramento, and the Trans and Queer Youth Collective.

To read more about these resources, use the link below.

As an educator, Anthony has worked primarily with homeless and underserved students. He has also worked for a number of years in the racial equity space. In his role as Racial Equity Specialist, he plans to further the work that has already been started around the Racial Equity Action Plan.

Welcome to Ayanna McGee, our team’s new Program Director, Systems of Care Integration!

Ayanna is a passionate health equity professional and has earned a Master of Health Administration and a Master of Public Health. Ayanna is currently completing a Doctor of Education in Health Professions with a dissertation exploring, “Investigating Current Efforts and Opportunities for Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention Training Among the Behavioral Health Workforce.” Ayanna’s professional journey includes experience in food access, youth and family services, public health program evaluation, and technical assistance for substance use prevention and mental health systems of care as well as expertise in project management, grants management, community engagement, and program planning and evaluation across nonprofit and public settings.

SSF and leaders from numerous important community organizations convened at the Rose Family Creative Empowerment Center to establish the Housing Families First Collaborative (HFFC), aiming to strategically address family homelessness in Sacramento County through system-level approaches, improved access to services and housing, racial equity, and data analytics. They built community, clarified commitments, established roles, deepened understanding, and identified next steps towards their shared vision of reducing and ending family homelessness in Sacramento. Learn more about this first-ever meeting and the HFFC below.

The Persons with Lived Experience (PLE) Cohort has been hard at work over the last year. Catch up on what they have accomplished, what they are working on, and what they have planned by reviewing the presentation below, originally presented at the June 2023 CoC Meeting.

The next Sacramento Homeless Policy Council (SHPC) meeting will be held on August 4, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. over Zoom. The SHPC is a forum designed to bring together our elected leaders and the CoC four times a year to engage in strategic discussions that advance solutions to our region’s homelessness crisis. As with prior SHPC meetings, they are open to the public in listening-mode only. The registration for the meeting link will be included in our July newsletter, and it will also be posted to the webpage below once available.

The Sacramento YHDP RFP process has ended. We wanted to thank our youth action board (YAB) for all their hard work to get us to this point. We especially want to acknowledge the youth with lived expertise’s role in developing the Consolidated Community Plan, the RFP, and their deliberations on the selection of recipients. The YAB had to make some tough decisions as there were nearly double the funding requests as we had in funds to give out. You can see a full list of funded projects on our website using the link below.