Provider Funding Opportunities – Sacramento Steps Forward

Sacramento Steps Forward is requesting proposals from agencies to provide Coordinated Access Navigation (CAN) Team services, such as housing problem-solving, system navigation, and limited financial assistance. The CAN team will play a critical role in the Coordinated Access System (CAS), by increasing accessibility to resources and supporting households resolve their housing crises whenever possible, with the goal of reducing the number of households who experience homelessness and housing instability. For more details, review the materials below:

Due Dates:

LOI on Friday, July 1st at 5PM
Application on Friday, July 22nd at 5PM

Application materials are to be submitted to RFP@sacstepsforward.org.

The Coordinated Access System (CAS) facilitates the coordination and management of resources and services through the crisis response system. CAS allows users to connect people efficiently and effectively to interventions that aim to rapidly resolve their housing crisis by increasing accessibility to resources and supporting households whenever possible. The CAS team’s goals are to reduce the number of households who experience homelessness and housing instability and to ensure that episodes of homelessness that do occur are rare, brief, and one-time. Please check back at a later time for more information.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), signifying the beginning of a funding competition among Continuums of Care (CoC), the community stakeholder groups that guide local responses to homelessness. The 2022 CoC NOFO was released on August 1st, 2022. Please visit the 2022 NOFO CoC Program Competition webpage for more information.

The Biden Administration through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a first-of-its-kind package of resources to address unsheltered homelessness and homeless encampments. Through this Special NOFO, HUD will award funding to communities to implement coordinated approaches–grounded in Housing First and public health principles–to reduce the prevalence of unsheltered homelessness and improve services, health outcomes, and housing stability among highly vulnerable unsheltered individuals and families. 

The Sacramento Continuum of Care (CoC) is eligible for funding to address unsheltered homelessness (Sacramento is not eligible for the rural homelessness funding) up to $10.6 million through this Special NOFO process and the NOFO application is due to HUD on October 22, 2022. Stay informed and find more details below!

Please visit the 2022 Special NOFO webpage for more details.