Tag: Housing

New Funding Opportunity: $2.3M available for Community Behavioral Health Rental Assistance

Categories Behavioral Health and Recovery, Department of Community and Human Services

The King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) Behavioral Health and Recovery Division (BHRD) is pleased to release the Request for Proposal (RFP) for Community Behavioral Health Rental Assistance. Up to $2.3 million is available through Washington State Department of Commerce funding. Applications are due on March 23, 2023, by 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. CBRA provides long-term or bridge rental subsidies for people with behavioral health conditions who have recently been discharged from state or community psychiatric stays and their households.

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Apply Now: $850,000 available for Housing and Recovery through Peer Services (HARPS)

Categories Behavioral Health and Recovery, Department of Community and Human Services

The King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) is pleased to release the Request for Proposal (RFP) for Housing and Recovery through Peer Services (HARPS) with funding from the Behavioral Health and Recovery Division (BHRD).  This RFP seeks a community organization to provide HARPS housing services and short-term housing bridge subsidies to people who are released from an inpatient behavioral healthcare setting such as a psychiatric inpatient setting or SUD residential treatment program.

Honoring Our Veterans Through Service  

Categories Adult Services, Department of Community and Human Services, Veterans and Military Family Services, Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy

King County Veterans Program (KCVP) is actively serving tens of thousands of veterans across King County. Currently, more than 115,000 veterans live in King County, one-fifth of veterans are in Washington state, and over 1,200 employees at King County are veterans.   On this Veterans Day, King County Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) would…

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An Equitable Development Initiative is Coming to King County

Categories Department of Community and Human Services, Housing, Homelessness and Community Development

King County is starting the process to create a community planning workgroup to support the development of the new King County Equitable Development Initiative (KC EDI)! We are looking for King County residents like you to help shape this initiative. For background, in 2021 a coalition of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) led…

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Health Through Housing to Bring More Housing to the Region in the Coming Months

Categories COVID-19 Response, Department of Community and Human Services, Health Through Housing, Housing, Homelessness and Community Development

Health Through Housing is an initiative to rapidly acquire up to 1,600 units of affordable housing for residents experiencing, or at risk of, chronic homelessness while reducing racial-ethnic disproportionality. We’ve acquired nearly 1,000 units for at-risk and chronically homeless residents—housing that is dignified, connected, and service-enriched.  The initiative reached a new milestone last month when…

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EPRAP continues to make a difference in communities across King County, take a look at the numbers  

Categories COVID-19 Response, Department of Community and Human Services, Housing, Homelessness and Community Development

Over the course of the pandemic, King County helped tens of thousands of renters avoid eviction and stay in their homes with our Eviction Prevention and Rent Assistance Program (EPRAP). Since its inception, the program paid $298 million in payments to 33,482 households. As of today, 6,228 households are assigned to a provider to complete…

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