The City of Winston-Salem is requesting proposals from service providers to operate a permanent supportive housing (PSH) project as part of the City of Winston-Salem’s efforts to end homelessness.
Donor Name: City of Winston-Salem
State: North Carolina
City: Winston-Salem
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/06/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The intent of this RFP is to provide the service and operating funding needed to operate permanent supportive housing units in an integrated setting. The City of Winston-Salem puts effort towards reaching this goal by providing funding for community-based organizations to quickly re house those experiencing homelessness while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness and to promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs.
Goals
- Identify and locate eligible families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
- Increase the availability of permanent supportive housing as a means to facilitate access to health services and improve the health status and quality of life experiences of families, individuals, and youth and young adults.
- Provide housing stability for households in a supportive environment based on positive development principles that recognize and build on the households strengths, and to maximize educational and employment opportunities to enable households to achieve self-sufficiency.
- Increase the availability of supportive services in permanent supportive housing as a means to reduce homelessness and recidivism into homelessness.
- Provide services and support to help eligible households manage health and behavioral health conditions, address other disabling conditions or life challenges and become and remain stably housed.
- Provide service and operating funding for permanent supportive housing units developed with federal, state, and local funding resources.
- Participate in the Coordinated Intake Center (CIC) and Continuum of Care (CoC). Accept clients from the CIC system which prioritizes clients based on disabling conditions and length of time homeless.
- Agree to serve homeless individuals and families utilizing a low barrier entry Housing First program model.
Eligible Populations
At the time of the referral the referred household must be living in an eligible living situation. Acceptable living situations at the time of referral include unsheltered homeless, sheltered homeless, prison, institutions (State, Psychiatric Center or Development Center). Persons referred who are exiting an institution must have been homeless prior to placement in the institution.
The eligible target populations to be served under this program are families (households with children) with a qualifying individual, individuals, and or young adults who are homeless by HUD definition and who are identified as having an unmet housing need and have one or more disabling conditions or other life challenges including:
- Persons with serious mental illness: Includes persons who are in psychiatric crisis or persons who have a designated diagnosis of mental illness under the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM) and whose severity and duration of mental illness results in substantial functional disability. Persons with serious mental illness includes children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances.
- Persons living with HIV/AIDS
- Victims/ survivors of domestic violence
- Military service with disabilities
- Chronic homelessness as defined by HUD including families and individuals experiencing street homelessness or long-term shelter stays
- Recurrent use of alcohol and or drugs which causes clinically and functionally significant impairment such as health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home. According to the DSM-5, a diagnosis of a substance use disorder is based on evidence of impaired control, social impairment, and risky use.
- Youth/young adults who left foster care within the prior five years and who were in foster care at or over age
- Homeless youth between the ages of 18 and 25 years old
- Adults, youth, young adults reentering the community from prison or juvenile justice placement, particularly those with disabling conditions
- Individuals who are age 55 and older and have a documented chronic condition and are street or shelter homeless
- Persons diagnosed with an intellectual/ developmental disability and determined eligible for services based on or by a local disability provider.
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible all applicants must meet the following conditions:
- Provide documentation of service to HUD-eligible homeless persons or families and provided same or similar services for at least the past 24 months.
- Provide evidence of current tax exempt status as verified by the IRS and must not owe any overdue tax debts, as documented on IRS 990 submissions to the IRS.
- Provide documentation of matching funds prior to application submission.
- Applicants, its officers, and/or employees must not be debarred or suspended from doing business with the Federal Government.
- Agree to participate in the local HMIS system as a condition of receiving grant funds.
For more information, visit City of Winston-Salem.
