Title
Resolution to Amend the Fiscal Year 2020 Council Approved Budget and Accept and Appropriate the 2020 Virginia Homeless Solutions Program Grant through the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The purpose of this resolution is to accept and appropriate state and federal funds to permit continuation of the Virginia Homeless Solutions Program through the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development.
Discussion:
The Hampton Department of Human Services (Social Services) was awarded the first Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) grant in fiscal year 2014-2015. Each subsequent year the award has been received (see Hampton City Council File No. 18-0276: Resolution adopted August 8, 2018).
The Virginia Homeless Solutions Program (VHSP), is funded by the State General Fund and the Federal Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) to support Continuum of Care (CoC) strategies and homeless services and prevention programs that align with the following goals:
To reduce the number of individuals/households who become homeless;
To shorten the length of time an individual or household is homeless; and
To reduce the number of individuals/households that return to homelessness.
Hampton Social Services serves as the lead agency for the Greater Virginia Peninsula Homelessness Consortium (GVPHC) and the fiscal agency for the Virginia Peninsula Collaborative (VPC). The Virginia Peninsula Collaborative (VPC) is a united effort between service provider agencies, to provide shelter operations, rapid re-housing (to include veterans), prevention, coordinated/central intake and Continuum of Care (CoC) planning across the region to include the cities of Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson and Williamsburg, along with James City and York Counties. Partners include Social Services, James City County Office of Housing and Community Devel...
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