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A Roof over Every Bed in King County:
Our Community's Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness

The plan is now complete and available to download in summary, supporting materials and complete versions at the Committee to End Homelessness in King County's website.

Taking Health Care Home (THCH) is a statewide grant that is sited within the Office of Housing. The goal of this grant is to promote innovative best practice models such as permanent supportive housing/housing first that better serve individuals who are disabled with long histories of homelessness.

We work across all levels of government, with providers and foundations to align the policy, planning and resources to support a robust pipeline of permanent supportive housing and other services that improve the lives of high need homeless populations.

Our grant is overseen by a national entity, The Corporation for Supportive Housing-- www.csh.org -- and is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Way of King County. For questions or comments please contact Tina Orwall at tina.orwall@seattle.gov or Bill Rumpf at bill.rumpf@seattle.gov.

Sound Families is a program to develop new housing with support services for homeless families, or families in danger of becoming homeless in Washington's King, Pierce and Snohomish counties.

Made possible by a $40 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the program anticipates funding a portion of capital costs and a portion of service costs for the first five years of project operations.

To be considered, applicants must have experience in developing, owning and managing housing for families with children, as well as providing stabilization services for families in crisis. Existing nonprofit housing development agencies are encouraged to form partnerships with service providers to propose housing with supportive services for families. An overview of Sound Families and application information can be found at www.soundfamilies.org.

Please contact Alice Shobe to discuss your project prior to submitting an application via e-mail at alice.shobe@seattle.gov or by phone (206) 233-7088.