News and Updates
Stay informed about the latest developments in our efforts to end homelessness in Anchorage. Here, you'll find updates on our programs, community initiatives, success stories, and ways you can get involved. Together, we can create lasting change and provide stable housing solutions for all. Visit regularly or subscribe to our monthly newsletter to see how we are making a difference and how you can contribute to our mission.
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🏠 With housing, they get their lives back 🏠
Beau and Sarah went through hard times after everything went sideways in the pandemic. Through the Next Step housing collaboration, they now have an apartment of their own and were able to regain their beloved dog, Hot Wheels. They are recovering, healing and working. Beau, who had been doing day labor and then was working for a shipping company, is again working as a licensed electrician. Sarah is working, too, and plans to regain her nursing license. They can work on regaining child custody. For the first time in a long while, they feel like someone’s got their back.
Read more here: https://www.aceh.org/news/with-housing-couple-gets-their-lives-back
#HousingSupport #RebuildingLives #NextStepAnchorage
🌟 We're Hiring! 🌟
The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness is looking for a driven and detail-oriented Executive and Finance Projects Specialist to join our team! You'll work closely with our leadership team to ensure smooth operations across administration, finance, IT, compliance, and office management. If you're highly organized, hardworking, and ready to make an impact, we want to hear from you!
📋 Job Highlights:
• Support the Executive Director, COO, and Director of Finance & Administration
• Ensure operational and organizational efficiency
• Assist in key areas including finance, administration, and office management
Interested? Apply today and help us in our mission to end homelessness in Anchorage! 🏠 aceh.org/employment (link in bio)
#AnchorageJobs #Hiring #NonprofitJobs #EndHomelessness #FinanceJobs #OperationsJobs
🎉 First medicine: Supportive housing in Anchorage for elders now open
Congratulations to Providence Alaska for its brand-new supportive housing project, Q’et’en Qenq’a – Providence House. It has the potential to be a game-changer in our community for people experiencing homelessness. Q’et’en Qenq’a means Elder’s House in the Dena’ina language.
Our most vulnerable neighbors will be better served the more we leverage health care resources and integrate health care and homelessness responses. A safe, stable and warm place to live helps people maintain and even improve their physical and mental health.
Q’et’en Qenq’a includes 45 permanent supportive housing studio apartments for individuals 55 and older who have been experiencing homelessness. It also includes six recuperative care units serving individuals who have been homeless and who need a healing place after they’ve been discharged from the hospital. They will have access to all services as well as follow-up health care services.
Learn how this program could be a model of integrated systems so that no one is discharged into homelessness. Read more at aceh.org/news (link in bio)
🏠🌟 #SupportiveHousing #HomelessnessResponse #ProvidenceHouse
Local Competition Applications Due Today, September 9!
Don't forget that today is the deadline for the Anchorage CoC (AK-500) FFY 2024 HUD Continuum of Care Program. If you provide supportive services and housing programs for those experiencing homelessness, be sure to submit your application by the end of today, September 9. Let's work together to make a difference in our community. Apply here: aceh.org/2024-nofo
#EndHomelessness #FundingOpportunity #HUDContinuumOfCare
Reminder: Anchorage CoC Program Competition Applications Due Monday!
Organizations providing supportive services and housing programs for individuals experiencing homelessness—don’t forget! Applications for the Anchorage Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition FY 2024-25 are due this Monday, September 9.
👉 Apply Now: aceh.org/2024-nofo or follow link in bio
Make sure to submit your application on time! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to grants@aceh.org
#AnchorageCoC #SupportiveHousing #EndHomelessness
177 housed through Next Step! Two camps have went straight from living outside to safe places to call home. Thank you to our partners and community who have been supporting our neighbors on their housing journey. Let's keep this going! aceh.org/next-step
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🌟 Anchorage's Progress on Homelessness in 2024 🌟
This year, we've seen meaningful progress in our community's efforts to address homelessness. From reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness to moving more individuals from the streets into housing, the results are encouraging. As we prepare for the upcoming winter, let's build on these successes and continue working together to make homelessness in Anchorage rare, brief, and one-time.
Read more in the latest op-ed by our Executive Director, Meg Zaletel, as she reflects on the year so far and looks ahead to what we can achieve together this winter. Link in bio!
#Anchorage #EndHomelessness #CommunityEffort #NextStep #TogetherWeCan
Today, our executive director, Meg Zaletel, had the opportunity to provide an overview of the state of homelessness in Anchorage — and what we are doing to solve it. She compared the situation in Anchorage to new national statistics and found that overall, Anchorage is doing alright. We're making progress!
"It's so important to understand the local landscape in light of the challenging national news on homelessness," she says.
Check our bio for a link to the national State of Homelessness report or copy and paste: https://ow.ly/84qb50Tah6I
Thanks to our partners at the @akhousingcoalition for this summit. The packed room shows how much people care!
#AlaskaHousingSummit #SolvingHomelessness #HousingIsTheAnswer
Funding & Coordination,
Continuum of Care
Sasha Zimmerman
Funding & Coordination,
Continuum of Care
Sasha Zimmerman
In search of fair funding
HUD’s allocation is based on cities’ overall population rather than the population of people who are experiencing homelessness.