Provides Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program (FHPAP) services and is accessible to individuals who are facing a housing crisis, are homeless, or are at risk of imminent homelessness. Services include: - Prevention Services: Temporary financial assistance and/or supportive services to help people remain in their current housing situation, relocate, or divert them from entering the homeless system. Financial assistance is provided for rental assistance, mortgage assistance, and utility payment assistance. - Street Outreach: Link individuals who are homeless to available resources such as shelter, housing, and/or critical health and supportive services - Rapid-Rehousing: Assist households to quickly exit homelessness and return to permanent housing. Provides short-to medium-term rental assistance and supportive services such as case management and housing navigation.

- Helps people find affordable housing, connects people to job resources, and works with people on a plan to be in stable housing long-term - Often able to assist with past-due rent or mortgage, first month's rent and deposit for homeless individuals and families, application assistance, transportation assistance, and more - Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP as well as others.

Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP provides: - Coordinated entry program intake - Direct financial services for persons needing help maintaining existing housing or to re-home themselves including: - First month's rent to move into an apartment - Mortgage (to prevent foreclosure) - Rent (to prevent eviction) - Security deposit to move into an apartment - Utility bill (to prevent disconnection) - Minimal financial assistance is available for: - Childcare - Food - Transportation - Work clothing

Services provided: - Advocacy with landlords - Eviction prevention and referrals to relevant agencies for those facing eviction or a utility shut-off - Helps with the Energy Assistance Program application. May provide financial assistance for utility as a last resort. - Long-term supportive housing - Navigation of housing resources

Regional Coordinated Entry to Housing Programs agency The family development program provides services that help persons with emergencies and crises, self-sufficiency, shelter and housing, homeless services, and several special projects. Services may include: - Case management - Emergency housing - Foreclosure prevention assistance - Permanent supportive housing - Rent/deposit assistance - Transitional housing

Intake process for programs serving individuals and families who are in search of housing programs or are in need of financial assistance for housing. Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program This program helps prevent homelessness by providing one-time assistance with a rent or mortgage payment for households that need a short-term "bridge" until their financial situation is expected to stabilize. Case management and follow-up services provided. Transitional Housing Program (Rapid Rehousing) This program provides information, referral, advocacy, and first month's rent and/or security deposit assistance to doubled up or homeless households moving into a housing unit. Ongoing rent subsidy may be provided until the household is able to sustain their rental housing.

NOTE: Funding is currently not available for this program at this time. Please refer to other programs. Provides homeless prevention program services such as: - Prevention Services: Temporary financial assistance and/or supportive services to help people remain in their current housing situation, relocate, or divert them from entering the homeless system. Financial assistance is provided for past due rent or for one-time housing funds to help individuals maintain or obtain housing. - Rapid-Rehousing: Assist households to quickly exit homelessness and return to permanent housing. Provides one-time rental assistance and supportive services such as case management and housing navigation.

Case managers are on-site to assist with accessing services such as housing, jobs, and education. - Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans assists with benefits counseling - Housing referrals - Employment services

Eviction prevention services include: - Outreach and Engagement: Connect with households not currently accessing services - Assessment: Work collaboratively with households to identify strengths, resources, barriers, and needs in the context of their local environment - Connection: Obtain for the household necessary mainstream services, benefits, treatment, legal services, and supports - Coordination: Bring together all the service providers in order to integrate services and help ensure consistency of service plans - Housing Counseling: Provides services to the person, including budget counseling and tenant education - Conflict Mediation: Provide proactive engagement and mediation services with landlords - Personal and Legal Advocacy: Intercede on behalf of the household to help ensure access to timely and appropriate resources - Follow-up: Maintain contact with the household after completion of services to track stability and provide additional services, if needed Housing navigators help households find rental housing opportunities, complete the application process, as well as help conduct landlord outreach and engagement. The role of the housing navigator is to minimize the number of days of homeless by assisting the household in obtaining rental housing as quickly as possible. Activities of housing navigation services may include: - Landlord recruitment, including outreach to an organization's network of existing landlords - Utilizing housing search engines to locate opportunities - Consistent communication with landlords to maintain a positive relationship and mitigate any issues that may arise - Assisting survivors of domestic abuse or human trafficking with housing-related services - Assisting households in completing housing applications - Assisting households in obtaining application fees, if needed - Transporting households to housing appointments - Assisting households in communication to a potential landlord about any housing barriers - Providing tenant education on landlord and tenant rights and responsibilities - Expediting the move-in timeline when feasible, between the date of acceptance and lease signing Following up with households to track stability and provide additional services after exiting the program as requested by the household NOTE: The programs do not provide financial assistance such as rent, mortgage, utilities, or other housing related costs.

Provides the following services: - Financial assistance with rent, utilities, rent and utilities arrears, transportation, basic needs, food, application fees, time-limited housing subsidies, emergency shelter, household necessities, etc. NOTE: Financial assistance may vary and is not guaranteed for every applicant. - Information and coordination related to public benefits, veterans' benefits, housing stability, employment, and legal issues In-House Services: Housing stability case management, rental subsidies, legal, employment, justice-involved coordination, healthcare navigation, landlord engagement, outreach, documentation specialist, financial coaching, and free voluntary representative payee services

NOTE: Funding is not available for this program ?Funds may be available to prevent homelessness. Families who are past due on their housing expenses and need financial assistance to cover a damage deposit, first month's rent, past due lot rent, at risk of being disconnected from their utilities, or keep their current housing can apply. NOTE: Families must get a pre-screen through United Way 211 and complete an online form to access this program. The pre-screen information is provided to Solid Ground - East Metro Place.

Primary services include coordinated entry access point for individuals who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. Case management is offered to prevent future issues with homelessness. Financial assistance may be available but is NOT provided in all situations, requirements vary by programs and funding. Potential assistance consists of: - Funding for housing and utility costs/deposits - Funding for transportation costs via vehicle repair or public transit - Clothing and food assistance as well as other basic needs - Housing stability case management Programs may include: - Limited fund for short term hotel stays in tandem with case management services - Long-term homelessness supportive services in Aitkin, Carlton, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Kanabec, Pine and Chisago County to help with housing search and placement for families and unaccompanied youth - Assistance for homeless ex-offenders in Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine County, housing placement as well as rent and deposit funds may be available -Transitional housing services for homeless youth ages 16 - 22, as well as some financial assistance for rent NOTE: Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP and others.

Housing Stabilization Service - Provides support to individuals and families in securing and maintaining safe, stable housing. Works closely with various providers and shelters to ensure that everyone has access to the housing resources. Housing Stabilization Support - Personalized Housing Plans: Collaborates with clients to develop tailored housing plans that address needs and goals - Ongoing Case Management: Continuous support to navigate housing challenges, including financial management, lease agreements, and landlord relations - Crisis Intervention: Immediate assistance during housing emergencies to prevent homelessness and ensure safety Connection with Providers and Shelters - Comprehensive Network: Partners with local shelters and housing providers to connect clients with available resources - Referral Services: Streamlined referrals to emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing - Collaboration with Community Partners: Works with community organizations to maximize support and resources for clients Supportive Housing - Assists individuals experiencing homelessness by exploring housing options, access funding to obtain housing, and transition to housing 24-Hour Emergency Assistance - Provides on-call counseling and problem solving and/or immediate response for assistance at a person's home due to a health or personal emergency.

- Helps people find affordable housing, connects people to job resources, and works with people on a plan to be in stable housing long-term - Often able to assist with past-due rent or mortgage, first month's rent and deposit for homeless individuals and families, application assistance, transportation assistance, and more - Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP as well as others.

Eviction prevention services include: - Outreach and Engagement: Connect with households not currently accessing services - Assessment: Work collaboratively with households to identify strengths, resources, barriers, and needs in the context of their local environment - Connection: Obtain for the household necessary mainstream services, benefits, treatment, legal services, and supports - Coordination: Bring together all the service providers in order to integrate services and help ensure consistency of service plans - Housing Counseling: Provides services to the person, including budget counseling and tenant education - Conflict Mediation: Provide proactive engagement and mediation services with landlords - Personal and Legal Advocacy: Intercede on behalf of the household to help ensure access to timely and appropriate resources - Follow-up: Maintain contact with the household after completion of services to track stability and provide additional services, if needed Housing navigators help households find rental housing opportunities, complete the application process, as well as help conduct landlord outreach and engagement. The role of the housing navigator is to minimize the number of days of homeless by assisting the household in obtaining rental housing as quickly as possible. Activities of housing navigation services may include: - Landlord recruitment, including outreach to an organization's network of existing landlords - Utilizing housing search engines to locate opportunities - Consistent communication with landlords to maintain a positive relationship and mitigate any issues that may arise - Assisting survivors of domestic abuse or human trafficking with housing-related services - Assisting households in completing housing applications - Assisting households in obtaining application fees, if needed - Transporting households to housing appointments - Assisting households in communication to a potential landlord about any housing barriers - Providing tenant education on landlord and tenant rights and responsibilities - Expediting the move-in timeline when feasible, between the date of acceptance and lease signing Following up with households to track stability and provide additional services after exiting the program as requested by the household NOTE: The programs do not provide financial assistance such as rent, mortgage, utilities, or other housing related costs.

Provides emergency rental assistance with goal-oriented case management to address the immediate housing crisis, prevent homelessness, and promote long-term housing stability by addressing barriers related to homelessness. Supportive services may include goal setting and stability planning, budgeting support, employment search, transportation assistance, childcare and benefits navigation, help identifying healthcare providers, and much more. Provides rapid re-housing services where members of the community open their homes to host a youth or young adult in Anoka County who are experiencing homelessness. Provides case management services to help facilitate transitions, minimize barriers, and help youth and young adults set and achieve their goals.

NOTE: Funding is not available for this program. Funds may be available to prevent homelessness. Single adults and households with 2 or more adults who are ages 18 and older that are past due on their housing expenses and need financial assistance to cover a damage deposit, first month's rent, past due lot rent, at risk of being disconnected from their utilities, or keep their current housing can apply. NOTE: Individuals must get a pre-screen through United Way 211 to access this program. The pre-screen information is provided to Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties - FHPAP.

Services are victim-centered, which means individuals will guide their own process, make their own decisions, and have staff provide information, support, and referrals. Services include: - Advocacy: Assistance in obtaining Emergency Protective Orders, Permanent Restraining Orders, Stalking/Harassment Orders, Temporary Restraining Orders, housing, community services, and medical appointments - Confidentiality - Community education and professional training - Crisis line - Emergency Services: Transportation to medical facilities, law enforcement, safe housing, etc. - Individual and group support - Prevention and/or Rapid Rehousing: Services provided by the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP - Safety planning

Primary services include coordinated entry access point for individuals who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. Case management is offered to prevent future issues with homelessness. Financial assistance may be available but is NOT provided in all situations, requirements vary by programs and funding. Potential assistance consists of: - Funding for housing and utility costs/deposits - Funding for transportation costs via vehicle repair or public transit - Clothing and food assistance as well as other basic needs - Housing stability case management Programs may include: - Limited fund for short term hotel stays in tandem with case management services - Long-term homelessness supportive services in Aitkin, Carlton, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Kanabec, Pine and Chisago County to help with housing search and placement for families and unaccompanied youth - Assistance for homeless ex-offenders in Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine County, housing placement as well as rent and deposit funds may be available -Transitional housing services for homeless youth ages 16 - 22, as well as some financial assistance for rent NOTE: Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program - FHPAP and others.

NOTE: Application is open for this program. Funds may be available to prevent homelessness. Single adults and families who are past due on their ?housing expenses and need financial assistance to cover a damage deposit, first month's rent, or keep their current housing can apply. ?If a resident of Carver and Scott County and seeking assistance, call 2-1-1.??If a resident of Dakota County and seeking assistance, call CAP Agency's Dakota County FHPAP intake line.

NOTE: Funding is currently not available for this program at this time. Please refer to other programs. Provides homeless prevention program services such as: - Prevention Services: Temporary financial assistance and/or supportive services to help people remain in their current housing situation, relocate, or divert them from entering the homeless system. Financial assistance is provided for past due rent or for one-time housing funds to help individuals maintain or obtain housing. - Rapid-Rehousing: Assist households to quickly exit homelessness and return to permanent housing. Provides one-time rental assistance and supportive services such as case management and housing navigation.

Intake process for programs serving individuals and families who are in search of housing programs or are in need of financial assistance for housing. Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program This program helps prevent homelessness by providing one-time assistance with a rent or mortgage payment for households that need a short-term "bridge" until their financial situation is expected to stabilize. Case management and follow-up services provided. Rapid Rehousing Program This program provides information, referral, advocacy, and first month's rent and/or security deposit assistance to homeless persons. Transitional Housing Program This program provides information, referral, advocacy, and first month's rent and/or security deposit assistance to doubled up or homeless households moving into a housing unit. Ongoing rent subsidy may be provided until the household is able to sustain their rental housing.

- Emergency Food and Shelter Program: Assists individuals and families in a crisis to prevent homelessness, which may include providing a motel voucher or food voucher - Family Homeless Prevention Assistance Program - FHPAP: Provides short-term assistance for individuals and families to keep housing, or to assist getting into housing such as providing rent payment, rental deposit and utility service payment assistance - Food Support Outreach: SNAP specialists assist with questions and applications, as well as provide outreach support - Transitional Housing: Helps people who have no permanent address find permanent housing - Youth Homeless Demonstration Grant (YHDP): Assists homeless youth ages 18-24 with obtaining housing, along with many other incentives

Emergency Shelter Program: Offers limited motel stays as a short-term solution while working with people to come up with a plan for long-term housing stability. Part of the plan may include employment and housing searches, connections to mainstream resources, and short to medium-term rental assistance. Transitional Housing Program: Provides a long-term housing program to help an individual regain self-sufficiency. The goal of this program is to transition struggling individuals and families into stabilized living situations. The resources are offered for people of all backgrounds, including single parents, children, and individuals that were recently evicted. The program requires an assessment, application approval, weekly case management meetings, and constant contact with a case manager. If approved Prairie Five can: - Pay a portion of rent ?- Provide assistance with referrals, phone calls, setting up appointments, application assistance, resume building, job search, family development, etc. ?- Tenant education ?- Budgeting/smart money use Family Homeless Prevention Assistance Program: Helps families or individuals get out of homelessness or prevent homelessness from occurring. If eligible, the FHPAP program can help with first month's rent, security deposit, or back rent/mortgage assistance up to a certain dollar amount. To be eligible for this program individuals must: - Fill out an application ?- Be able to prove a housing crisis (eviction notice, mortgage papers, etc.) ?- Must have income During this program, all applicants who are deemed eligible will also be required to watch the "Rent Wise, Money Smart" videos. The videos go over smart shopping, facts about debt and credit reports, saving, budgeting, and more.

Eviction Prevention Eviction prevention is intended to assist households in maintaining permanent rental housing. Service strategies are focused on addressing the immediate housing crisis and can be integrated with other mainstream resources to address more long-term needs. This program is designed to assist households who are at imminent risk of homelessness including those are sharing the housing of other individuals due to loss of housing or economic hardship (doubled up). Eviction diversion is an eviction prevention strategy that prevents homelessness for people seeking shelter by helping them identify immediate alternative housing arrangements and connecting them with services and financial assistance to help them return to permanent housing. Diversion programs can reduce the number of households becoming homeless, the demand for shelter beds and the size of program waiting lists. Eviction prevention services include: - Assessment: Work collaboratively with households to identify strengths, resources, barriers and needs in the context of their local environment - Conflict Mediation: Provide proactive engagement and mediation services with landlords - Connection: Obtain for the household necessary mainstream services, benefits, treatment, legal services and supports - Coordination: Bring together all the service providers in order to integrate services and help ensure consistency of service plans - Follow-up: Maintain contact with the household after completion of services to track stability and provide additional services, if needed - Housing Counseling: Provide services to the person, including budget counseling and tenant education - Outreach and Engagement: Connect with households not currently accessing services - Personal and Legal Advocacy: Intercede on behalf of the household to help ensure access to timely and appropriate resources Housing Navigation Housing navigators help households find rental housing opportunities, complete the application process, as well as help conduct landlord outreach and engagement. The role of the housing navigator is to minimize the number of days of homeless by assisting the household in obtaining rental housing as quickly as possible. Activities of housing navigation services may include: - Assisting households in completing housing applications - Assisting households in communication to a potential landlord any housing barriers - Assisting households in obtaining application fees, if needed - Assisting survivors of domestic abuse or human trafficking with housing-related services - Consistent communication with landlords to maintain a positive relationship and mitigate any issues that may arise - Expediting the move-in timeline when feasible, between the date of acceptance and lease signing - Following up with households to track stability and provide additional services after exiting the program as requested by the household - Landlord recruitment, including outreach to an organization's network of existing landlords - Providing tenant education on landlord and tenant rights and responsibilities - Transporting households to housing appointments - Utilizing housing search engines to locate opportunities The program does not provide financial assistance such as rent, mortgage, utilities, or other housing related costs.