Some services within this program include funding for family shelters, shelters for individuals, and day program services. Types of assistance are detailed below. Homeless individuals in need of shelter may call this office. The individual will then be referred to one of the homeless shelters in the area.
Shelters provide temporary food and housing on a nightly basis.
This office will provide assistance in obtaining housing for both families and individuals in need of housing. DHCD contracts with community organizations to find permanent housing for eligible families. Scattered site housing provides battered women and their children homeless due to domestic violence, apartment-like environment and appropriate services, including housing search. See Housing Section, J12 for information on creating scattered site housing. This involves the use of state aided and conventional housing as transitional housing that homeless families will occupy while participating in the program.