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families throughout the community.
Additionally, CDBG funding will continue to support Menchville House and its Menchville House
Group Home program. This program provides transitional housing and supportive services to
women and children experiencing crisis situations and homelessness, helping participants
achieve greater stability and progress toward permanent housing solutions.
Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families
with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to
permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that
individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals
and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were
recently homeless from becoming homeless again
The City of Newport News and its regional partners continue to prioritize federal funding
initiatives that support chronically homeless individuals and families while strengthening
services for homeless veterans through collaboration with the Virginia Department of Veterans
Services and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Key initiatives include the continued
utilization of Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers throughout the region and
the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program administered by Living Interfaith
Network (LINK). In addition, the VA maintains intake hours at the Four Oaks Day Service Center,
allowing homeless veterans to quickly access housing resources, supportive services, and
benefits assistance.
Since 2008, member agencies of the GVPHC have collaborated to establish a coordinated and
effective system for identifying, assessing, and rapidly connecting homeless individuals and
families to appropriate housing through the region’s Coordinated Entry process and committee
meetings. All participating service providers engage in the coordinated referral system,
promoting transparency, shared accountability, efficient resource utilization, and
comprehensive data collection to support evidence-based service delivery and best practices
across the region.
This coordinated approach has significantly reduced many of the barriers individuals and
families previously encountered when seeking housing and supportive services. Improvements
include more standardized eligibility criteria, the elimination of family separation based on age
or gender, the removal of substance testing requirements, and the elimination of income
prerequisites for program entry. Collectively, these system-wide enhancements have increased
accessibility to housing resources and supportive services for the community’s most vulnerable
residents.
In addition, case management services throughout the provider network have become
increasingly collaborative and comprehensive. Providers regularly coordinate to address the
needs of highly vulnerable households, identify effective stabilization strategies, and share best
practices related to housing retention and service delivery. This collaboration has strengthened
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