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Minnesotans have a reputation of being tireless and effective advocates for all children. We are recognized for our willingness to speak up to insure that all children have a healthy start in life. No one needs this healthy start more than children who have been homeless. Watch Video

NEW 2009 Statewide Homeless Research This study from Wilder Research found more homelss children than ever, with half of homeless children age 5 or younger and racial and ethnic minorities disproportionately affected. Click here to read

The Minnesota Interagency Council on Homelessness has released Minnesota’s Roadmap for Ending Homelessness: a comprehensive set of strategies for maximizing and aligning future work on this initiative. Click here to view PDF

Homelessness and accompanying trauma can have a profound negative impact on all areas of a child's development.  Yet, children and youth continue to represent a growing population of the homeless.  To learn more, read Wilder Research 2009 Minnesota homeless fact sheet, Homeless Children in Minnesota and their Families.

 
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Provider Group Stabilization Initiative

As part of that planning process, the Fund convened the Supportive Housing Provider Group (the Provider Group). Several policy papers were published documenting the planning process, recommendations for stabilization, and opportunities for collaborative resource leveraging (see Research and Discovery - The Supportive Housing Continuum: A Model For Housing Homeless Families and Financial Implications of Public Interventions on Behalf of a Chronically Homeless Family).

In 2000, the Family Housing Fund (the Fund) launched the Supportive Housing Initiative to assist Provider Group agencies with the costs of development, rehabilitation, and stabilization of supportive housing facilities. Through this initiative, the Fund assisted in stabilization or new construction of over 350 family supportive housing units. The Fund’s investment of $4.5 million in private philanthropic funds leveraged more than $65 million from federal, state, and local government sources. These results include securing operating assistance from the federal Section 8 project-based voucher program for 20 supportive housing projects with 317 units. These vouchers have an estimated total value of $3.4 million per year over a ten-year period, for a total of $34 million.

The Provider Group has evolved into a vibrant professional network of 17 nonprofit sponsors of supportive housing for families in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. The Provider Group members meet quarterly to share information and explore opportunities for service collaboration. Together, the Provider Group agencies sponsor nearly 1,000 units of supportive housing for approximately 2500 formerly homeless children and their parents.

Members serve widely diverse constituencies, including families with a parent in recovery from chemical dependency and mental illness, families escaping domestic violence, women leaving prostitution, families involved with child protective services, families with HIV/AIDS, single parents in education programs, and a large percentage of formerly homeless families from communities of color.