The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving is providing grants totaling more than $1.1 million to six nonprofits working to end homelessness in Greater Hartford.
Grants were awarded to AIDS Connecticut ($102,000), Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness ($30,000), Corporation for Supportive Housing ($300,000), ImmaCare ($144,000), My Sisters’ Place ($220,000) and The Salvation Army ($326,544).
The groups are expected to provide a broad range of services aimed at preventing or eliminating homelessness to more than 1,500 Greater Hartford individuals and families who are homeless or facing homelessness. That includes “no-freeze” efforts to provide temporary shelter during the winter.
Some of the steps to be taken using this funding include serving more than 1,300 clients through rapid re-housing, eviction prevention/landlord negotiation, and sheltering services and providing daily case management services, meals and shelter for 75 men.
Homelessness among families in the region has steadily decreased in the past decade, but work remains, said Sharon O’Meara, director of community investments at the Hartford Foundation.
Results from the 2016 Point-in-Time Count (conducted by the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness and funded by the Hartford Foundation) indicate that chronic homelessness has declined more than 3 percent since 2015 and 13 percent since 2007. This funding will enable more collaboration and coordinated efforts, she said.
