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Title: Preventing Homelessness and Providing Hope: How One Bay Area Collaborative is Preventing Family Evictions


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Preventing Homelessness and Providing Hope How
One Bay Area Collaborative is Preventing Family
Evictions
  • Presented by
  • Karen Erickson and Jose Cartagena
  • Catholic Charities CYO
  • Cindy Ward, City and County of San Francisco

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Introductions
  • Karen Erickson, Program Director, CCCYO
  • Jose Cartagena, Program Manager, CCCYO
  • Cindy Ward, Deputy Director, City and County of
    San Francisco

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First Phase of Collaboration
  • 1999 Housing Crisis
  • City of SF identifies need for homelessness
    prevention services
  • Request for Proposals is created to provide
  • Back rent payments
  • Case Management
  • Legal Services
  • Tenant Advocacy Education

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Second Phase
  • CCCYO has a long history of helping poor families
  • City emphasized collaboration due inability of
    any one agency to provide all services
  • CCCYO approached the partners to work together to
    meet need
  • Partnered with three main agencies to provide a
    broad range of services FEPCO born

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Collaboration is Implemented
  • New agencies approached original partners and
    asked to be part of collaboration
  • They wanted access to the resources that were
    otherwise not available for their clients
  • FEPCO established MOUs with more than 20 agencies

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Third Phase
  • CCCYO developed a user-friendly system for use by
    all partners
  • Simplified a complex package of documents
  • Created an electronic version of the application
  • Decided to share this new, easier system to the
    three other agencies that also receive city
    rental assistance funds

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Challenges
  • Collaborating can be very difficult
  • Different cultures and staff
  • Sharing funding means sharing control and
    decision-making
  • City had to step in if collaboration couldnt
    agree

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Accomplishments
  • Since 1999 FEPCO has served over 4700 families
  • More consistency across programs
  • More cooperation between agencies
  • Demonstrated ability of government and nonprofit
    agencies to work together effectively

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2008
  • CCCYO was awarded the Community Partnership Award
    by the Mutual of America Foundation
  • Acknowledged hard work between four different
    agencies to create an easier system for families
    to get rental assistance

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Future Hopes
  • Plan to use this model when responding to new
    RFPs for example the Federal Stimulus funds now
    available
  • Other communities can replicate our model to
  • - provide a higher quality of services to
    families
  • - avoid duplication of services
  • - maximize resources

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Contact us
  • Cindy Ward, Manager, Family Programs, Housing and
    Homelessness Division, Human Services Agency,
    City and County Of San Francisco, P.O. Box 7988,
    San Francisco, CA 94120, 415-557-6447
  • Jose Cartagena, Program Manager, Homelessness
    Prevention Programs, Catholic Charities CYO, 180
    Howard Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA
    94105, 415-972-1310
  • Karen Erickson, Program Director, Homelessness
    Prevention Programs, Catholic Charities CYO, 180
    Howard Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA
    94105, 415-972-1346
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