Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness
77 Buckingham Street, Hartford CT 061061 P (860) 721-78761 F (860) 257-11481 www.cceh.org
What Is A Ten Year Plan to Prevent & End Homelessness?
A ten year plan is meant to transform your community's homeless assistance system and how you (the community) responds to someone facing a housing crisis or addresses the needs of someone who is currently homeless. A ten year plan sets clear numeric goals, timetables, and identifies funding and implementing bodies to ensure you move from planning to action. A ten year plan is effective because it is developed and driven by people like you who have a vested interest in the community; including businesses, government, non-profits, faith-based, and civic organizations, individual resident's, and people who are currently or formerly homeless. In the ten year plan, you outline a wide range of strategies depending on the gaps and needs you have identified in your community, including: • creating and using data systems; • preventing homelessness - both emergency prevention and looking at risk factors such as utility costs, employment or childcare barriers;
• outreach to homeless people to get them back into housing;
• shortening the time that people spend homeless by using strategies to re house people quickly; • creating permanent housing options for homeless people; • and, once homeless people become housed, linking them to services and to programs that will help them boost their income and increase their ability to afford housing in the future.
Ten Year Plans to Prevent & End Homelessness are part of a national movement introduced through the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Conference of Mayors, and the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness to address home less ness on a state and local level. Nationally, over 300 communities have developed and are implementing plans. In Connecticut, there are currently 9 Ten Year Plans in various stages of implementation.
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