Homeless Crisis Response Systems respond to the immediacy and urgency of homelessness and make sure that everyone has a safe and appropriate place to live. Homelessness is prevented whenever possible, or if it can’t be prevented, it is a rare, brief, and one-time experience. The priority is to end homelessness throughout Mason County with a special focus on the following sub-populations: adults, families, youth, chronically homeless, and veterans. We look to organizations committed to this purpose and can grow and drastically improve towards this end goal. Priority is given to agencies that implement coordinated approaches grounded in Housing First and public health principles to reduce the prevalence of unsheltered homelessness and improve services engagement, health outcomes, and housing stability among highly vulnerable, unsheltered individuals and families. The Consolidated Homeless Grant contains dedicated eviction prevention funding to help prevent homelessness among the most vulnerable households. The Housing and Behavioral Health Advisory Board has identified permanent housing solutions that support persons with mental illness and increased emergency shelter capacity for families as the top priorities for this funding. The RFP Disclosure Document describes the projects or programs and performance outcome expectations by project type.
