Office of Homeless Services (OHS): Difference between revisions

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Providing Emergency Housing and Other Services to People Who Are Homeless and To Those At Risk Of Homelessness

Our mission is to provide the leadership, coordination, planning, and mobilization of resources to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in Philadelphia.

Prevention and diversion: Working to prevent homelessness in the first place and diverting people away from shelters and into alternatives that are effective and safe.

Emergency and temporary shelter: Providing critically needed shelter to people who would otherwise be on the street or other places unfit for human habitation.

Long-term housing: Securing safe and affordable housing options for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable residents. This includes programs like rapid re-housing.

Food security: Informing food-insecure persons where to go for free food and meals, and empowering partners to provide healthy food options in safe and clean sites.

Note: The above descriptive information came from the department's About page.

In The News

Aggressive panhandlers prompt Philly to offer new option for helping those in need, WHYY, June 13, 2017.
City Offering 'Text Alternative' To Reduce Panhandling, CBS-3, June 12, 2017.
Philly mayor: Don't give cash to panhandlers, Philly Voice, June 12, 2017.

Info

Alternate URL: philadelphiaofficeofhomelessservices.org
Twitter: @PHLCityHomeless

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+{{toplink|url=https://www.phila.gov/departments/office-of-homeless-services/|name=phila.gov/departments/office-of-homeless-services}}<blockquote>''Providing Emergency Housing and Other Services to People Who Are Homeless and To Those At Risk Of Homelessness''</blockquote>
-http://www.philadelphiaofficeofhomelessservices.org
+Our mission is '''to provide the leadership, coordination, planning, and mobilization of resources to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring''' in Philadelphia.
-Philadelphia's '''Office of Homeless Services''' introduces itself with the line, "Many Partners, One Goal, End Homelessness", and {{gives}}<blockquote>The mission of the Office of Homeless Services is to provide the leadership, coordination, planning and mobilization of resources to make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring for the City of Philadelphia.<br><br>Homeless Services works collaboratively with more than 60 mostly nonprofit, homeless housing and service providers combined with city, state and federal governmental entities to comprise Philadelphia’s homeless service system or Continuum of Care (CoC).  This system provides emergency housing and services to people who are both experiencing homelessness and at imminent risk of homelessness.  It includes homelessness prevention and diversion, emergency, transitional and rapid re-housing, permanent supportive housing, case management, supportive services, emergency response, service days (clean up of encampments), food and commodity distribution to contracted emergency housing facilities and soup kitchens and operation of the Riverview, a personal care home.<br><br>Homeless Services supports:
+''Prevention and diversion:''&nbsp;Working to prevent homelessness in the first place and diverting people away from shelters and into alternatives that are effective and safe.
-*24 emergency housing facilities for singles and families with a total capacity of 2,622 beds.
-*16 transitional housing programs which housed 495 households in FY16.
+''Emergency and temporary shelter:''&nbsp;Providing critically needed shelter to people who would otherwise be on the street or other places unfit for human habitation.
-*5,825 Permanent Supportive Housing units including 200 annual housing vouchers for singles and 300 housing opportunities for families through a partnership with the Philadelphia Housing Authority which has an 88 percent success rate for singles and 97 percent success rate for families in preventing a return to homelessness.
-*Homeless intake which sees 20,000 people a year, diverting 40 percent from shelter entry.
+''Long-term housing:''&nbsp;Securing safe and affordable housing options for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable residents. This includes programs like rapid re-housing.
-*Financial assistance to 824 households to prevent homelessness.
-*Rapidly Re-housed 339 households with an 85 percent success rate in preventing a return to homelessness.
+''Food security:''&nbsp;Informing food-insecure persons where to go for free food and meals, and empowering partners to provide healthy food options in safe and clean sites.
-</blockquote>
-== Info ==
+''Note:''&nbsp;&nbsp;The above descriptive information came from the department's [https://www.phila.gov/departments/office-of-homeless-services/about/our-work/ About] page.
-*[http://philadelphiaofficeofhomelessservices.org/news/publications/ Publications]
-*[http://www.stallionpublishers.com/touch.aspx?pid=1811&pkey=kuuqrgbbz) Philadelphia’s Five Year Strategic Plan for the Homeless Assistance System]
-*[[Philadelphia’s Coordinated Entry and Assessment-Based Housing Referral System – or “CEA-BHRS”]]  (pronounced sea-breeze)]
-*[http://philadelphiaofficeofhomelessservices.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cea-bhrs-provider-orientation_for-distribution.pdf Provider Orientation (how CEA-BHRS works)]
 ==In The News==
-*[http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/homepage-feature/item/104720-aggressive-panhandlers-prompt-philly-to-offer-new-option-for-helping-those-in-need Aggressive panhandlers prompt Philly to offer new option for helping those in need], Newsworks, June 13, 2017.
+*[https://whyy.org/articles/aggressive-panhandlers-prompt-philly-to-offer-new-option-for-helping-those-in-need/ Aggressive panhandlers prompt Philly to offer new option for helping those in need], WHYY, June 13, 2017.
-*[http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2017/06/12/effort-to-reduce-panhandling-in-center-city/ City Offering 'Text Alternative' To Reduce Panhandling], CBS-3, June 12, 2017.
+*[https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/effort-to-reduce-panhandling-in-center-city/ City Offering 'Text Alternative' To Reduce Panhandling], CBS-3, June 12, 2017.
-*[http://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-officials-launch-fundraiser-combat-increased-panhandling/ Philly mayor: Don't give cash to panhandlers], Philly Voice, June 12, 2017.
+*[https://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-officials-launch-fundraiser-combat-increased-panhandling/ Philly mayor: Don't give cash to panhandlers], Philly Voice, June 12, 2017.
+== Info ==
+*Alternate URL:&nbsp;[https://philadelphiaofficeofhomelessservices.org/ philadelphiaofficeofhomelessservices.org]
+*Twitter:&nbsp;[https://twitter.com/PHLCityHomeless @PHLCityHomeless]
-==See Also==
+== See Also ==
 *[[National Homeless Shelter Directory - Philly Page]]
+*[[Philadelphia’s Coordinated Entry and Assessment-Based Housing Referral System (CEA-BHRS)]]
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+[[Category:Serves-Homeless Youth]]
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+[[Category:Serves-Out Of School Youth]]
+[[Category:Serves-At-Risk Youth]]
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