Portland Homeless Family Solutions

Housing and rent assistance - phfs helps families experiencing Homeless move quickly back into homes by helping families pay security deposits and 12-24 months of rent assistance. The organization also provide case management for 24 months to help families create action plans, balance their budget, connect to their new community, increase their income by getting jobs and education, and learn new skills they use to keep housing. This program served 734 people from 330 families during the 2021-22 fiscal year. In 2021-22, the continued its new kind of winter engagement for the second year in a row, focusing on families outside on the streets, camping or in their car abd help them move directly into housing, thus diverting them from shelter all together. This program served 21 families during the coldest nights of the year.

Prevention program - the organization helps families with children prevent their homelessness in the first place by helping them keep housing. These families are able to stay in their communities where the kids can stay in school and the parents can remain near their jobs. Phfs pays back rent and utilities for families during times of emergency, with an average investment per Family of only $3,514. This program served program 214 people from 67 families during the 2021-22 fiscal year.

Emergency shelter - Family village - the organization operates Family village shelter for up to 17 Homeless families with children. Family village is the first trauma-informed shelter for Homeless families with children in Oregon. The shelter provides each familiy their own private bedroom with real beds, plus access to a full service kitchen, dining room, a library, computer lab, classroom, laundry room, kids playground, vegetable garden, basketball court and dog walk area. The trauma informed design focuses on building dignity, restoring power, and promoting autonomy and have been shown to help families heal from the crisis and stress of homelessness so they can actually make the kind of change they want to see in their lives. In this fiscal year the entity served 56 families (212 individuals). (continued on schedule o)on average families stayed 98 days in shelter before transitioning to permanent housing. Additionally, 67% of the familites were employed while in the shelter, and 58% of the total clientle are children.