HSCTC

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The Ithaca / Tompkins County Continuum of Care System (CoC NY-510), a local community planning network of public, private, and non-profit partners, is committed to ending homelessness in Tompkins County. The Human Services Coalition serves as lead entity for this collaborative planning process, which has been in existence since at least 1995. Currently, there is a great opportunity for CoC's like ours to address homelessness as we shift our focus from managing homelessness to preventing and ending it.

The Ithaca / Tompkins County planning process emphasizes

• An effective Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) that assesses data and need to prevent and end homelessness.


• Homelessness Prevention: Engaging homeless individuals and families, and those at-risk of homelessness, and linking them with services.

• The development of an adequate supply of permanent supportive housing.

• A 10-Year Plan to end chronic and other homelessness in Tompkins County.

Our CoC strategy is building on successful outcomes. Recently, two HUD (US Department of Housing & Urban Development) CoC funding awards brought stability to the lives of numerous homeless individuals:

• Community Housing of Ithaca created the American Red Cross Chronically Homeless SRO Project, a 6-bed permanent housing project.

• And Lakeview Mental Health Services built 8 permanent beds for the chronically homeless mentally ill.

In addition, our CoC acted as a catalyst for The Learning Web's, 15- apartment, transitional living program. HOME and matching ESG funds helped address the needs of homeless youth through housing, as well as job training and education.

With the CoC acting as a facilitator and providing support, mixed income housing such as Overlook I and II remain at full capacity. Other CoC projects include Tompkins Community Action's Corn Street Apartments for young families with a high success rate of moving young families into their own permanent homes, and Chartwell House for single chronically homeless men which provides permanent stable housing. Both programs run at nearly 100% of capacity.

Since 1996, $1,931,375 in funding has supported projects implemented by the following organizations: Tompkins Community Action, Unity House, and Community Housing of Ithaca.