Lane County seeks to fund culturally specific organizations to conduct outreach and/or front door assessments to these identified populations. Outreach agencies may include language specific TV/radio stations, culturally specific agencies, groups, clubs. The entity must be a business or nonͲprofit agency. Outreach may include sharing how to access homeless response system supports with organization members via newsletter, eͲmail, mailers, etc. Creating new tools to share homeless response system access points including flyers, magnets, translated documents, etc. Agencies providing outreach may receive up to 10K Front Door Assessments (FDA) include meeting with organization members who are homeless and asking a series of assessment questions to determine vulnerability. FDAs take approximately 30 minutes and are entered into an electronic form. Agencies providing outreach and FDAs may receive up to $25K.
