Kingdom Causes dba City Net

Results: • Six years in existence • 31 locales • 24,585 outreach contacts • 13,813 client engagements • 9,664 outreach call requests • 313 online outreach requests • 4,682 street exits

Target demographics: end street level homelessness

Direct beneficiaries per year: 9577 neighbors experiencing homelessness

Geographic areas served: Southern California

Programs: Our work continues to focus on 3 main cause areas: homelessness, human trafficking and neighborhood development. Our functional role is collaborative leadership. We enroll, train and mobilize hundreds of clergy, community and non-profit leaders through our various collaboratives, walking tours, educational course work and capacity building trainings. Hundreds of direct and personalized coaching hours are invested with our associated leaders and their respective congregations/organizations. As a faith-based organization, one of our primary customers is the regional "church of the city" in our various city contexts. This year we have seen significant results. In the county of orange growing number of cities, our homeless collaborative efforts (with over 250 agencies, faith based communities and community partners) just passed our 1000th individual officially moved off of the streets. Our human trafficking effort continues to work with 130+ partners (faith communities, law enforcement, local business leaders and more) to train over 10,000 high school students, expand first responder support programs and provide leadership to a number of high profile awareness and engagement events. Our neighborhood development work saw great results in the city of riverside where we wrapped up the our riverside, our neighborhoods effort where we mobilized hundreds of local neighbors in the 26 unique sections of the city as they worked to develop and implement community projects for the flourishing of their fellow neighbors. For City Net specifically, we are a team of nonprofit professionals who work to end street-level homelessness in a city or region through the coordination of community efforts and activities. In many cases, we are contracted by cities and regions to lead multi-sector homeless collaboratives, which unite city and county agencies, law enforcement, non-profit organizations, businesses, advocacy groups, concerned citizens and the faith community in a singular effort to address and end homelessness in the community. The coordination of care among these groups results in shared goals and successes greater than the sum of the individual parts. When local needs require it, City Net also deploys staff in direct service provision through street outreach and case management services. Street outreach seeks to connect unsheltered homeless neighbors with emergency shelter, housing, or critical services, and providing urgent, non-facility-based care. These activities are intended to help homeless neighbors obtain appropriate supportive services, including permanent housing, medical health treatment, mental health treatment, counseling, supervision, and other services essential for achieving independent living; housing stability case management; and other Federal, State, local, or private assistance available to assist the program participant in obtaining housing stability. City Net also works to mobilize community resources, including meals, volunteers, donations and advocacy, to coordinate care in emergency shelters, parks, and other public areas where homeless neighbors live. These efforts seek to reduce wasteful duplication and fill missing gaps in the continuum of care, with the long-term goal of ending homelessness by providing homeless neighbors a stable context in which their emergency needs are met, so they can work on long-term housing plans.