2022-2023 City of Denton Street Outreach Grant Application |
Application Overview
Street Outreach Grant
The City has prioritized investment in the Housing Crisis Response System (HCRS) as a collaborative and coordinated system response to address the complex issue of homelessness in our community. The HCRS is designed to achieve the community's shared goal of Making Homelessness Rare, Brief, and Nonrecurring. The HCRS is built on a continuum of services working together on multiple fronts to meet the diverse set of needs in our community.
Street outreach is a critical tool in the City’s response to homelessness. Street Outreach (SO) ensures that people living on the street are provided information and referrals, diverted from homelessness through Diversion strategies (when possible), have access to housing (when available) through the Coordinated Entry (CE) assessment process for housing placement, crisis intervention, and follow-up supportive services.
People experiencing homelessness have increased barriers to housing. Through local outreach experience, reviewing existing research, and learning first-hand from other communities about evidenced-based strategies, additional tools associated with successful housing outcomes have been identified. This includes increasing the frequency of outreach to individuals living unsheltered and connecting to behavioral health services and addressing barriers to housing.
Street Outreach is a cross-sector collaboration of nonprofit agencies, Denton Police Department's (DPD) Homeless Outreach Officers, DPD's mental health initiative Crisis Intervention Response Team (CIRT), along with other resources such as Denton Fire Paramedics.
The $128,450 annual grant supports a multidisciplinary outreach team approach. Specifically, having a dedicated non-profit resource coordinating with the Homeless Outreach Team to reach people experiencing literal homelessness and living with a behavioral health disorder or other housing barriers will improve housing outcomes and stability for people to move from unsheltered to sheltered and permanent housing. This grant supports case management, housing barrier elimination, counseling, diversion, and treatment for people living unsheltered.
This grant may be used for qualified salaries and/or in support of services addressing housing barriers (critical documents, emergency medication or medical treatment, etc.), mental health treatment services, behavioral health case management, financial costs that support diversion, and substance use treatment services provided to people experiencing literal homelessness and living with a substance use disorder. Grant applicants are encouraged to propose a project and detail how it could meet the needs for street outreach in Denton. All organizations interested in meeting this need and applying for the Street Outreach grant must submit a grant application to Community Development.
• All application information and additional requested information must be submitted to Community Development on or before the deadline of August 1, 2022 by 11:59 p.m. Agency must be available for a brief presentation to the Community Services Advisory Committee Friday, August 12th at 12:00pm.
• Funds will only be awarded to a single recipient.
• No late applications will be accepted
For questions regarding the application contact:
Megan Ball
Homeless Programs Coordinator
(940) 349-7234
Megan.Ball@CityofDenton.com
Street outreach is a critical tool in the City’s response to homelessness. Street Outreach (SO) ensures that people living on the street are provided information and referrals, diverted from homelessness through Diversion strategies (when possible), have access to housing (when available) through the Coordinated Entry (CE) assessment process for housing placement, crisis intervention, and follow-up supportive services.
People experiencing homelessness have increased barriers to housing. Through local outreach experience, reviewing existing research, and learning first-hand from other communities about evidenced-based strategies, additional tools associated with successful housing outcomes have been identified. This includes increasing the frequency of outreach to individuals living unsheltered and connecting to behavioral health services and addressing barriers to housing.
Street Outreach is a cross-sector collaboration of nonprofit agencies, Denton Police Department's (DPD) Homeless Outreach Officers, DPD's mental health initiative Crisis Intervention Response Team (CIRT), along with other resources such as Denton Fire Paramedics.
The $128,450 annual grant supports a multidisciplinary outreach team approach. Specifically, having a dedicated non-profit resource coordinating with the Homeless Outreach Team to reach people experiencing literal homelessness and living with a behavioral health disorder or other housing barriers will improve housing outcomes and stability for people to move from unsheltered to sheltered and permanent housing. This grant supports case management, housing barrier elimination, counseling, diversion, and treatment for people living unsheltered.
This grant may be used for qualified salaries and/or in support of services addressing housing barriers (critical documents, emergency medication or medical treatment, etc.), mental health treatment services, behavioral health case management, financial costs that support diversion, and substance use treatment services provided to people experiencing literal homelessness and living with a substance use disorder. Grant applicants are encouraged to propose a project and detail how it could meet the needs for street outreach in Denton. All organizations interested in meeting this need and applying for the Street Outreach grant must submit a grant application to Community Development.
• All application information and additional requested information must be submitted to Community Development on or before the deadline of August 1, 2022 by 11:59 p.m. Agency must be available for a brief presentation to the Community Services Advisory Committee Friday, August 12th at 12:00pm.
• Funds will only be awarded to a single recipient.
• No late applications will be accepted
For questions regarding the application contact:
Megan Ball
Homeless Programs Coordinator
(940) 349-7234
Megan.Ball@CityofDenton.com