Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness (ACEH)

🏠 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://lnkd.in/gqnebvH4 #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 #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 https://lnkd.in/gfT3tXN5 🏠🌟 #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: https://lnkd.in/gftkxTrc 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 https://lnkd.in/gKa6dCmS

🌟 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. https://lnkd.in/gMQQd3pv #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. The national report is here: https://ow.ly/7Mto50Tah6J Thanks to our partners at the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness for this summit. The packed room shows how much people care! #AlaskaHousingSummit #SolvingHomelessness #HousingIsTheAnswer

Calling all Anchorage housing providers! Our local grant competition for Continuum of Care projects is on! Organizations that already have a grant from through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development CoC program should make sure to renew their grant application. We also encourage organizations to submit proposals for new, or bonus, projects. As the local lead agency for the Anchorage Continuum of Care, we manage our community's collaborative application to HUD. Applications and instructions: https://lnkd.in/gftkxTrc Technical assistance sessions are set for Friday and again on Sept. 6: https://lnkd.in/gY3vSS85 We also are looking for community members who have experienced homelessness to take part in the Rank & Review Committee for scoring projects. The perspective of those with lived experience is invaluable. Join in and help us build an effective homelessness response! #ContinuumOfCareANC #grantcompetition #HousingForAll

Next Step is working! We LOVE how our community comes together to house our neighbors. So far, 177 have gone from homelessness to housed including 27 who were unsheltered and living outdoors. Thanks to all who are helping us make this possible, to Anchorage Daily News for covering the story and to Patricia for sharing her experience. "I came this far. I should not mess it up," she told ADN. https://lnkd.in/g5-atXC9 #NextStepANC #HousingIsTheAnswer #HousingCollaboration