Family Homelessness Challenge Grant, Round 2

Purpose: The Family Homelessness Challenge Grant (FHC) provides competitive grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions to promote rapid innovation and expand promising practices to create scalable solutions that can be shared across the state to address and ultimately end family homelessness. FHC was established for the purpose of providing one-time grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions and continuums of care to address and end family homelessness. There is a total of $15 million available in FHC-2 funds, which is the second and final round of funding for the FHC program. The FHC-2 program seeks to fund current eligible FHC-1 grantees who submit an innovative proposal that expands, complements, augments, and/or strengthens their FHC-1 proposal by making families’ experiences of homelessness rare, brief, and one-time. • Rare : Prevented whenever possible • Brief: Ended quickly whenever it does occur through a focus on Housing First approaches and housing outcomes • Onetime : Ended successfully the first time.An innovative proposal complements, augments, or strengthens a community’s efforts to address and end family homelessness. Innovative is relative to a community’s existing efforts (if any); it does not necessarily mean a paradigm shift. Proposals should demonstrate potential for being scaled and replicated to support statewide efforts to eliminate family homelessness. The Department will only fund proposals that:- Expand, complement, augment, and/or strengthen their FHC-1 proposal. - Proposals that offer promise for being scaled and replicated to support statewide efforts to address and end family homelessness. - Demonstrate the most promising and innovate practices. Within the most promising and innovated practices, the Department will give preference to proposals that promote rapid innovation, accelerate nascent programs, expand promising practices, and meet new demands and conditions for solutions targeted towards ending family homelessness. The Department shall prioritize applications that demonstrate cross-systems collaboration, multi-funder initiatives, and innovative efforts that coordinate across funding streams and systems. To be eligible to receive FHC-2 funds, applicants must demonstrate adequate progress toward (FHC-1) program goals, remain in compliance with all program requirements, and demonstrate the most promising and innovative practices which could be scaled and replicated to support statewide efforts to eliminate family homelessness. Eligible Applicants: Only eligible FHC-1 grantees may compete for the second round of funding (FHC-2). To be eligible to apply for FHC-2, an awarded FHC-1 grantee must remain in compliance with FHC requirements and demonstrate adequate progress toward their self-identified, prioritized objective and demonstrate the most promising and innovative practices which could be scaled and replicated to support statewide efforts to eliminate family homelessness. Eligible Geographies: Eligible applicants must be a local jurisdiction (city/county) or Continuum of Care in the State of California.

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