Local resources
CalWORKs Homeless Assistance
CalWORKs Homeless Assistance is available to families with children who are currently enrolled in (or eligible for) a CalWORKs program. The purpose is to remove the barriers of homelessness so participants can get and keep employment.
Good News Rescue Mission (GNRM)
Services available to those in need of emergency subsistence services such as food, clothing, and shelter. All residents staying at the Good News Rescue Mission are offered formal recovery programs that can include over 6 months of residency-based programming teaching addiction recovery, basic life skills, money management, GED completion, work skills, and healthy families. Also, continued housing, aftercare, and other supportive services are available as necessary. These programs are offered free of charge to our neighbors in desperate need.
Homeless / Community Medicine
Shasta Community Health Center. Medical, dental, and special services.
Redding Area Homelessness Coalition Project
The Strategic Plan proposes a cohesive set of strategies that will provide a roadmap for our community and decision-makers to address the issue of homelessness in Shasta County with a sense of urgency, and of hope.
Redding’s Homeless Ride a Wave of Very Tough Love. Capital and Main. 5 Feb. 2020.
Nieves, Evelyn. Redding’s Homeless Ride a Wave of Very Tough Love. Capital and Main. 5 Feb. 2020. Newsletter article.
Shasta Community Health Center
The Health Outreach for People Everywhere (HOPE) provides comprehensive primary health care, case management, street/shelter outreach, and referral services for individuals who are homeless or at-risk through Shasta Community Health Center in Redding.
Shasta County, CA Homeless Shelters, Supportive Housing, Halfway Housing, Transitional Housing, Day Shelters
Shelter Listings is dedicated to serving the homeless and low-income. We have listed out the shelters and services we have in Shasta County, CA below. This list has homeless shelters, halfway houses, affordable housing, etc. The database consists of over 4,000 listings and includes emergency shelters, homeless shelters, day shelters, transitional housing, shared housing, residential drug alcohol rehabilitation programs and permanent affordable housing.
Unsheltered Adult Homeless Assistance Program
The Unsheltered Adult Homeless Assistance Program is for adults without children who are currently homeless.
National resources
HOMELESS AND RUNAWAY YOUTH
What Are States Doing.
Federal Policy.
Additional Resources.
About This NCSL Project.
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
Homeless Veterans
VA is committed to ending homelessness among Veterans.
Housing Not Handcuffs: Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities
Provides an overview of criminalization measures in effect across the country and looks at trends in the criminalization of homelessness, based on an analysis of the laws in 187 cities.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness
A nonpartisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States.
DESPITE LONG-TERM PROGRESS, HOMELESSNESS UP IN 2017.
The Center for Evidence-based Solutions to Homelessness.
Homelessness in the Most Populous U.S. Metro Areas, 2016 – Interactive Map.
Unsheltered Homelessness: Trends, Causes, and Strategies to Address.
The National Coalition for the Homeless
National network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission: To prevent and end homelessness while ensuring the immediate needs of those experiencing homelessness are met and their civil rights protected.
Proven Solutions
Housing-Based Solutions.
Redding’s Homeless Ride a Wave of Very Tough Love
Nieves, Evelyn. Redding’s Homeless Ride a Wave of Very Tough Love. Capital and Main. 5 Feb. 2020.
THE STATE OF HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA
HOMELESSNESS STATISTICS in the United States.
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. (2016).
Continuum of Care (CoC) Homeless Assistance Programs Homeless Populations and Subpopulations Reports provide counts for sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons by household type and subpopulation, available at the national and state level, and for each CoC.