Hilton Foundation Launches Initiative to Combat Family Homelessness
Hilton Foundation Launches Initiative to Combat Family Homelessness
The Los Angeles-based Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has announced a five-year initiative to improve housing, health, and the prospects of homeless youth and at-risk children in Los Angeles and Minneapolis/St. Paul by enhancing services and integrating service systems.
The foundation will invest $11.2 million in the Strengthening At-Risk and Homeless Young Mothers and Children Initiative; strategies and measures proven to be effective as a result of the initiative will be shared nationally to improve services for homeless children and their families. The National Center on Family Homelessness in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the Child Welfare League of America and National Alliance to End Homelessness, will coordinate the initiative and help to select program participants, provide training and technical assistance, evaluate which programs work best for whom, and offer other supports to project partners throughout the duration of the program.
The initiative, which will be implemented through local collaborations of housing/homelessness and child development/welfare agencies, has two main components: providing direct services for homeless children and mothers, and supporting capacity building
and training for local agencies that serve homeless families. By supporting innovative collaborations, it will seek to improve integration of housing/homelessness and child development/welfare systems locally, while developing effective models for implementation nationally.
"Families now comprise 40 percent of the overall homeless population," said foundation president and CEO Steven M. Hilton. "Yet there is a paucity of services and none that really bridge the divide between homeless services and early childhood development sectors."
“Hilton Foundation Launches National Initiative to Help Homeless Mothers and Children.”
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Press Release
10/17/06.
Primary Subject: Human Services
Location(s): California, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
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