| Working to Prevent and End Homelessness in Racine County, Wisconsin.
Street outreach is done year round by the CoC. However, on the third Wednesday of January and July each year, homeless service providers and volunteers join forces and "take to the streets" to find persons experiencing homelessness in Racine County, and offer them shelter and other services. For a number of days after, we visit various locations in the community in search of individuals who we may not have located on the night of Point in Time (PIT).
The primary goal of the Point-In-Time Street Outreach event is to identify anyone without shelter, and help them identify shelter options and other services available in the community. The secondary goal to obtain demographic information that helps us make decisions about gaps in services and needs of those experiencing homelessness. It is also a requirement attached to funding for homeless and homeless prevention assistance that is received in Racine County. These funds originate with the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and are administered directly by HUD, the State of Wisconsin or the City of Racine.
HOW WE DO THE POINT IN TIME STREET OUTREACH?
Volunteers will receive an orientation prior to conducting street outreach activities. An experienced leader will guide each volunteer team.
WHAT WE DO WHEN WE FIND SOMEONE WHO IS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS?
WHEN IS POINT IN TIME?
Please take the time to register for this event and pass along information about it to others. We greatly appreciate your efforts to help end and prevent homelessness in Racine County.
Thank you Doug! We used a lot of paper.
We have concluded our strategic planning sessions – 15 hours! Many thanks to Doug Gundlach for volunteering his time and expertise to guide us through this process, Siena Center for hosting us, and Sr. Chris Braslovick for helping us make this possible. Join us January 18 at 9am at United Way of Racine County when we present our recommendations. We need your input and participation!
We will be posting the application at least 2 days before our September 18 deadline for review. The count down has begun!
All renewal projects were selected to be included in the application. We did not have any new project applicants this year. Congratulations to our applicants.
An informational meeting about the FY2018 CoC NOFA will be held on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 9 am at HOPES Center of Racine, 521 Sixth Street, Racine, WI. General information about the local process, as well as changes to the HUD CoC NOFA since last year will be discussed. NEW PROJECTS WELCOME!
Working to Prevent and End Homelessness in Racine County, Wisconsin.