Programs

Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG)

This federal program provides funding to HCH for emergency homelessness prevention and to rapidly rehouse individuals, families, and at-risk households.
The ESG funds are used for short-term rental assistance to prevent homelessness and help move homeless people back into permanent rental housing.
Its main purpose is to help individuals and families quickly regain permanent housing stability after experiencing a housing crisis and/or homelessness.

Challenge Grant

This program helps to address local needs of individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The overall goal of the grant is to use the Challenge Grant to partner with local agencies to reduce homelessness in Highlands, Hardee, Hendry, Glades, Okeechobee, and Desoto Counties.

Permanent Supportive Housing Grant (PSH)

Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is permanent housing in which housing assistance ( e.g., long-term rental assistance) and supportive services are provided to assist households with the head of the household that have a disability in achieving housing stability. .

Bonus Grant

The Bonus Grant utilizes “Housing First Model” as a model of housing assistance that prioritizes rapid placement and stabilization in permanent housing that does not have service participation requirements or preconditions (such as, sobriety).

Emergency Solution CV3 Grant (ESG CV3)

PROJECT ENDED JUNE 30, 2024.

The ESG CV3 grant is used to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, among individuals and families who are homeless or receiving homeless assistance and to support additional homeless assistance and homelessness prevention activities to mitigate the impacts created by coronavirus under the Emergency Solutions Grants program. Street Outreach and
emergency shelter services (short term) are also provided.

Rapid Unsheltered Survivor Housing Grant (RUSH)

The RUSH grant is used to address housing and services needs of people experiencing homelessness whose needs are caused by disasters, and people who are at risk of longer-term homelessness because of disasters. The focus is on disaster declared areas. Street Outreach services are also provided.

Projects

Homelessness Prevention (HP)

Services for individuals and or families at risk of losing their primary residence due to an unforeseen financial crisis in the family.

Rapid /Rehousing (RRH)

A solution to homelessness is designed to help people quickly end their experience of homelessness and return to permanent housing. RRH projects is a low-barrier intervention offered without preconditions, following the Housing First Model. RRH focuses on three core components: housing identification, rent and move-in assistance, and supportive services like Case Management.

• Housing First Model -It’s an evidence-based approach, and it’s mandated by funders like Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Housing First works because you don’t make people “earn” housing. It is to provide housing for people who need it right away. And then it provides the individualized set of services that they need to obtain the skills and resources to maintain that housing.
• Qualification for RRH -HUD funded programs, individuals and/or families must meet the definition of literally homeless to qualify for RRH -meaning they’re staying in a shelter or living on the streets and sleeping in areas not meant for human habitation. This also applies to individuals or families who are sharing households. And for individuals who are exiting an institution where ( s )he has resided for 90 days or less and who resided in an emergency shelter or place not meant for human habitation
immediately before entering the institution.