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Continuum of Care:
Description of a Continuum of Care:
Since 1994, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been encouraging communities to address the problems of housing and homelessness in a coordinated, comprehensive, and strategic fashion. This concept is designed to help communities develop the capacity to envision, organize, and plan comprehensive and long-term solutions to addressing the problem of homelessness in their community.
The Continuum of Care is a community plan to organize and deliver housing and services to meet the specific needs of people who are homeless as they move to stable housing and maximum self sufficiency. It includes action steps to end homelessness and prevent a return to homelessness.
The components of a CoC system is outreach, intake, and assessment to identify an individual’s or family’s service and housing needs, and to link them to appropriate housing and/or service resources like: Emergency shelter and safe, decent alternatives to the streets, Transitional housing with supportive services and then permanent housing and permanent supportive housing.
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Description of Balance of State Application:
In 1995, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) implemented the Continuum of Care approach to streamline the existing competitive funding and grant-making process under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and to encourage communities to coordinate more fully the planning and provision of housing and services for homeless people.
Annually, the Indiana Interagency Council on the Homeless (IAC) prepares the Indiana Balance of State Continuum of Care application for any regional Continuum of Care that desires to apply as a consortium of Continua of Care. The development of Indiana's "Balance of the State" application is the result of many diverse efforts throughout the state to address homelessness, and it currently involves twelve of the state’s thirteen Continua. Through this extremely competitive Continuum of Care program, local and state jurisdictions, housing authorities, and nonprofits (secular and faith based) can apply for funding in supportive housing for homeless persons as defined by HUD.
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