HHS Homeless Programs (2023)

Ending homelessness requires housing combined with the types of services supported by HHS programs. Providing treatment and services for the homeless is included in the activities of many HHS agencies, including:

• Administration for Children and Family (ACF)
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Administration for Children and Family (ACF)

Programs for runaway and homeless youth
Every year, thousands of young Americans run away from home, are forced to leave their homes, or become homeless. Through the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program, the Office of Family and Youth Services supports street awareness programs, emergency shelters and long-term transitional living and group parenting programs to serve and protect these youth.

Basic program of the center
The Basic Center program helps create and strengthen community programs that address the immediate needs of runaway and displaced youth under the age of 18. In addition, BCP tries to reunite young people with their families or find suitable alternative accommodation.Find the basic core program.

Transitional living program for elderly homeless youth
The Transitional Living Program supports projects that provide long-term housing services for homeless youth. Young people must be between 16 and 22 years old to join the program. Services are provided for up to 21 months. Young people who have not reached the age of 18 at the end of the 21 months can stay until they reach the age of 18.Group homes for young pregnant women and parents, which are also financed through TLP, support young pregnant women and/or homeless parents, as well as their dependent children.Find a transitional living program.

street widening program
The Street Outreach Program enables organizations across the country to help young people get off the streets. The program promotes the efforts of its users to build relationships between street workers in the community and runaway, homeless and street youth. Beneficiaries also provide support services aimed at moving young people into stable housing and preparing them for independence. The ultimate goal of the program is to prevent abuse or sexual exploitation of young people living on the streets or in unsafe housing.Find the street widening program.

Program for filing alimony applications
The Child Support Enforcement Program is a federal/state/tribal/local partnership to assist families by promoting family self-reliance and child well-being. All states and territories operate a child support application program. Families seeking state child support services must apply directly through their state/local agency or one of the tribes that administer the program. Services are available to the custodial parent of a child whose other parent lives outside the home, and services are automatically available to families receiving assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Concession of utility services of the block
The Community Services Block Grant funds a network of community action agencies that provide poverty reduction services and activities, including employment, education, disposable income, housing assistance, nutrition, energy, emergency services, health, and targeted substance abuse services. Formula funds are awarded to the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and state and federally recognized Indian tribes.

Program for the provision of services and prevention of domestic violence
The Domestic Violence Prevention and Services Grant Program assists state agencies, territories and Indian tribes in providing shelter to victims of domestic violence and their dependents, and for related services such as emergency transportation and child care. Beneficiaries use additional resources to expand current service programs and establish additional services in rural and underserved areas, on Native American reservations, and in Alaska Native villages. The program also supports technical assistance and training for local domestic violence programs and disseminates research and information through five resource centers.

Concession of the block of social activities
The Block Grant Social Assistance Program helps states provide social services that address the needs of children and adults. Funds are allocated to states based on population. Funding supports outcomes across the spectrum of human services and is linked to strategic objectives such as employment, childcare, childcare, adoption and youth services. States have the flexibility to use their funds for a range of services, depending on state and local priorities. SSBG is based on two fundamental principles: (1) state and local governments and communities are best able to determine the needs of individuals to help them achieve self-sufficiency; and (2) social and economic needs are intertwined and must be met simultaneously.

Temporary help for needy families
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a flexible group grant to states, territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes for use in any way reasonably calculated to fulfill the purpose of the TANF program. Section 401 of the Act sets forth the following four goals of TANF: (1) to provide assistance to needy families so that children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of family members; (2) ending the dependency of poor parents on government benefits by promoting readiness for employment, work and marriage; (3) prevent and reduce the frequency of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and set annual numerical goals for preventing and reducing the frequency of these pregnancies; and (4) encourage the creation and maintenance of two-parent families.

Children's Aid and Development Fund
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), administered by the Office of Child Care (OCC), is a multibillion-dollar federal and state partnership that promotes family economic self-reliance and helps children succeed in school and life through affordable and accessible resources high quality. - quality childcare and extracurricular programs. Subsidized child care services are available to eligible families through vouchers or grants and contracts with service providers.

Almost 1.5 million children receive childcare subsidies from the CCDF every month. As a pooled grant, this program offers states, territories, and tribes significant flexibility in designing their CCDF policies, including the ability to define eligibility and prioritize resources. The OCC encourages states to use this flexibility to provide access to the most vulnerable populations, including homeless families.

The Child Care and Development Grants Act of 2014 has several provisions that specifically benefit homeless children and families, including a requirement that:

• Use CCDF funds for activities that improve access to childcare services, including:
  • Procedures for allowing the enrollment of homeless children (after initial determination of eligibility) with obtaining the necessary documentation
  • Training and technical assistance in identifying and caring for homeless children and their families
  • Special extension for homeless families
• Establish a grace period that allows street children to receive CCDF services while their families take the necessary steps to meet immunization and other health and safety requirements
• Coordinate CCDF services with early childhood programs serving homeless children
• Collect child-level data on whether CCDF children are homeless

tribal home visit
The Tribal Mother, Child, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program provides grants to tribal organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate home visiting programs in American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities. It is funded from a 3% reserve from the larger Federal Home Visiting Program (MIECHV). Tribal home visiting grants are awarded to Indian tribes, tribal consortia, tribal organizations, and urban Native organizations.

The Tribal Home Visiting Program is designed to develop and strengthen tribal capacity to support and promote the health and well-being of AIAN families; expand the evidence base around home visits in tribal communities; and support and strengthen collaboration and linkages between programs serving AIAN children and their families.

The goals of the Tribal Home Visit program include:

• Support the development of happy, healthy and successful AIAN children and families through a coordinated home visiting strategy that addresses critical maternal and child health, development, early learning, family support and child abuse and neglect prevention needs.
• Implement high-quality, culturally relevant, evidence-based home visiting programs in AIAN communities.
• Expand the evidence base on home visiting interventions with indigenous people.
• Support and strengthen collaboration and coordination and promote linkages between different early childhood programs, resulting in coordinated and comprehensive early childhood systems.

Title V, Federal Real Estate Assistance Program
The Federal Real Estate Assistance Program (FRPAP) transfers surplus federal real estate suitable and available for public benefit to the homeless at no cost to states, their political subdivisions (eg, municipalities), and tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations. people for the purpose of welfare. The recipients must use the transferred property for approved purposes for a specified period of years in accordance with key terms and conditions. Eligible programs include supportive services, emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Medicaid
Medicaid is a federal government health insurance program that serves low-income families, children, pregnant women, adults without children, as well as the elderly and people with disabilities. In fiscal year 2021, Medicaid provided coverage to more than 74.2 million individuals, including 22.9 million children, the elderly, the blind and/or disabled, and those eligible for federally assisted income maintenance payments. State Medicaid programs cover health care, behavioral health care, and support services for eligible individuals.

Children's Health Insurance Program
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is jointly funded by the federal and state governments and administered by the states. Within broad federal guidelines, each state determines its program design, eligible groups, benefit packages, payment coverage levels, and administrative and operational procedures. CHIP provides a limited amount of funding to states on a matching basis. Children began getting coverage through CHIP in 1997, and the program has helped states expand health care coverage to more than 5 million uninsured children in the country. The program was reauthorized on February 4, 2009, when the President signed the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA or Public Law 111-3).

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Health care for the homeless
Homeless Health Care is a comprehensive multidisciplinary program that offers primary health care, substance abuse treatment, acute care with hospital referrals for inpatient care services, and outreach services to help hard-to-reach homeless people qualify for appropriate programs and housing. .

Program of the Health Center
The Community Health Centers program consists of centers that provide health services and help ensure access to primary care for populations in need. Services are provided regardless of a person's ability to pay. Fees are discounted or adjusted based on patient income and family size in accordance with applicable Federal poverty guidelines.

Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006
The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act (also known as the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program), administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), authorizes funding for most of the agency's HIV/AIDS work. Programs are funded through states, disproportionately impacted metropolitan areas, community health centers, dental schools, and women's, infant, youth, and family health programs. An increasing number of people accessing HIV/AIDS services and housing have histories of homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse. The HRSA office responsible for managing the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, the Office of HIV/AIDS (HAB), addressed housing and health care access through the development of housing policies, direct service programs, services, as well as technical assistance and training activities for beneficiaries . According to our FY 2005 CARE Act Data Report (CADR), of the 2,631 providers who responded to the question of whether they serve a special target population, 1,180 providers indicated that they serve the homeless.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Homeless Transition Assistance Projects (PATH)
PATH is a grant program that provides financial assistance to states to support services for individuals who are at-risk or homeless, who have a serious mental illness or a co-occurring serious mental illness and substance abuse disorder. PATH grants are distributed annually to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands. Each state or territory collects proposals and allocates funds to local public or not-for-profit organizations known as PATH providers. Eligible PATH activities include outreach services; diagnostic examination and treatment services; habilitation and rehabilitation services; community mental health services; alcohol or drug treatment services; team training; case management services; support and supervision services in residential institutions; referral to primary health services, vocational training, educational services and appropriate housing services; and the prescribed set of housing services.

Subsidies for the homeless(GBHI)
GBHI is a competitive grant program that enables communities to expand and strengthen their treatment services for homeless people suffering from substance abuse or mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. Grants are awarded for up to five years to public or not-for-profit entities in the community, and services funded include outreach services, screening and diagnostics, treatment, enrollment in major benefit programs, recovery support services, case management, staff training, job training, educational services and assistance during identification and placement in stable housing.

Treatment of the homeless (TIEH)
TIEH is a competitive grant program that enables communities to expand access to treatment for homeless individuals who have serious mental illness (SMI), severe emotional disorder (SED), or a co-occurring disorder (ie, SMI and substance abuse disorder [ COURT] or SED and COURT). Grants are awarded for up to five years to public or non-profit entities in the community, and services funded include awareness, screening, treatment, peer support, links to sustainable permanent housing, case management, recovery and assistance with enrollment in conventional benefits.

SSI/SSDI Reach, Access and Recovery (SOAR)
The SOAR program increases access to social disability benefits for eligible children and adults living or at risk of homelessness who have a serious mental illness, medical disability and/or co-occurring substance abuse disorder.

Block support for community mental health services
The MHBG program provides funding and technical assistance to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and all six Pacific jurisdictions. Recipients use funds to provide comprehensive community mental health services to adults with serious mental illness and children with severe emotional disturbances and to monitor progress in implementing a comprehensive community mental health system.

Blocked support for addiction prevention and treatment(SAGB)
The SABG program is a non-competitive grant program that provides funding to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, three Pacific jurisdictions, three freely associated federal states, and one tribal entity. implement and evaluate prevention, substance abuse treatment (SUT), (e.g. referral to housing), recovery support services (e.g. permanent links to supportive housing; accommodation and food for transitional housing or recovery homes in combination with SUT treatment services ) and promote public health. Recipients have the flexibility to distribute program funds to local government units and then to communities and religious organizations to provide LDS prevention, early intervention, treatment and recovery support services to individuals and families in need. The program emphasizes providing services to populations in focus and service areas; in particular, people who inject drugs, pregnant women and women with dependent children, services for people with HIV/AIDS and/or tuberculosis or who are at risk of infection, and people who need primary prevention services.

State Opioid Response (SOR)
The SOR program aims to address the opioid crisis by increasing access to medication-assisted treatment using three drugs approved by the FDA to treat opioid use disorders, reducing unmet need for treatment, and reducing opioid-related deaths. opioid overdose through the provision of opioid use disorder (OUD) prevention, treatment and recovery services (including the illicit use of prescription opioids, heroin, and fentanyl and fentanyl analogs). This program also supports evidence-based prevention, treatment, and recovery services to address substance abuse and use disorders, including cocaine and methamphetamine. These grants are awarded to states and territories based on a formula. The program also includes a 15% reserve for the ten states with the highest drug-related death rates.

Tribal Opioid Response (TOR)
TOR is a federally recognized grant program for tribes and tribal organizations to address the opioid crisis in tribal communities by increasing access to evidence-based, culturally appropriate treatment, prevention, treatment and recovery support services. TOR recipients can meet clients' housing needs by providing transitional housing, recovery housing, inpatient/residential treatment, and providing other direct supports to help individuals meet their housing needs.