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TEEM Embedded Housing Navigation Partnership

Homeless Alliance

Award Date: July 24, 2024
Awarded: $389,900

Homeless Alliance operates the community’s only general use day shelter; manages OKC, Norman, and rural Oklahoma’s Homeless Management Information System; provides housing programs; and facilitates close collaboration among the government, faith-based, and nonprofit agencies addressing homelessness in OKC. They also operate four social enterprises, each providing employment, job skills training, income and case management to people experiencing homelessness and people at risk of homelessness. With this funding the agency will place a Homeless Alliance employee at The Education and Employment Ministry (TEEM), an Oklahoma City based nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking cycles of incarceration and poverty. This housing navigator will address the needs of TEEM clients who are experiencing homelessness, connecting them to short-term rapid rehousing services and helping them explore available subsidy options. They will also provide ongoing stabilization services post-lease in, including landlord mediation, basic life skills, and housing education.