Housing Opportunities

WestCare California focuses on providing critical and quality services to assist individuals and/or families to quickly regain stability in permanent housing after experiencing a housing crisis or homelessness. Programs such as Project Unite, Home Sweet Home, Anthem Outreach/Assessment and Project LiftOFF provide housing and address the multiple needs of homeless adults and their children. Our Homeless Disability Advocacy Program (HDAP) works with disabled individuals who are experiencing homelessness to apply and obtain disability benefits as well as supportive housing. Support services are provided by the Day 1 Families Fund, Home Safe, Warm Handoff and Opening Doors to Housing and Wellness programs to link individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Through the use of the Coordinated Entry System (CES), our staff track information for our individuals served and use it as a road map for placement into permanent supportive housing by our Rapid Solutions (Diversion), Navigation, HUD CES and ESG Map grants. WestCare uses the Housing First Model which has proven that homeless and at-risk individuals are more responsive to interventions and social services support after they are housed, rather than as a precondition of housing.