JBAY Events

The Homeless Emergency Aid Program: California’s Newest Strategy to Address Youth Homelessness

Sep 06, 2018
On June 27, California created the Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP), which will provide local jurisdictions with $500 M to address homelessness. The program requires that a minimum of 5% of the funds are used to address youth homelessness. This webinar provided an overview of HEAP by Ginny Puddefoot, the Executive Director of the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council. It also featured the work of Jovenes, Inc., a Los Angeles-based housing provider and the Corporation of Supportive Housing (CSH) to address youth homelessness, including homelessness among college students. Attendees learned how to identify the entity in their community applying for HEAP funding, how much funding is available to their community, how to determine the proportion of the local homeless population that are unaccompanied youth, how Jovenes and CSH implement strategies to reduce homelessness and promote college achievement, and how to incorporate this model into the local application.

The Presenters

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