Heading Residence
Santa Clara County’s Heading Residence Marketing campaign offered new information on the Nov. 18 Board of Supervisors assembly, exhibiting vital progress in its multi-year effort to maintain households and kids out of homelessness.
“Our progress is the result of extraordinary partnership,” stated Supervisor Susan Ellenberg. “Schools, service providers and the county have come together to ensure that thousands of families and children have access to housing and stability.”
The Heading Residence Marketing campaign, created by way of a referral by Ellenberg, whose District 4 contains Campbell, and former Supervisor Cindy Chavez, launched in 2021 in collaboration with the Workplace of Supportive Housing (OSH). Since then, the marketing campaign has helped 2,543 households, together with greater than 5,000 youngsters age 5 or youthful, safe everlasting housing. A further 145 households are at the moment enrolled in housing applications and actively looking for housing.
Households with youngsters experiencing homelessness account for 16% of the county’s 2025 Level in Time Rely homeless inhabitants.
Constructing on the marketing campaign’s efforts, the county launched a school-based pilot program in October, in partnership with San José Unified College District, East Facet Union Excessive College District and the Invoice Wilson Heart. The pilot locations homelessness prevention assets straight on faculty campuses, offering households prone to homelessness with onsite case administration, versatile monetary help and authorized providers.
The brand new school-based initiative displays our dedication to assembly households the place they’re, performing earlier than homelessness happens and addressing homelessness at its root,” Ellenberg stated in a launch.
In gentle of great federal funding cuts, together with the proposed shift away from everlasting housing, the Board of Supervisors was set to look at how these cuts might influence the Heading Residence Marketing campaign and related efforts at its Nov. 18 assembly.
