The Melville Charitable Trust engaged Focus Strategies, on behalf of the statewide Reaching Home Funders Collaborative, which includes the Connecticut Department of Housing, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, to conduct an analysis of homeless system performance and develop recommendations for system re-design to achieve progress towards ending homelessness in Connecticut.

A diverse array of stakeholders throughout the state is committed to building upon this progress and continuing efforts to end homelessness statewide. To that end, the Funders Collaborative has convened to gain a deeper understanding of systemwide performance in relation to system investments and utilize this information to shape investments in efforts to address homelessness moving forward. This Funders Collaborative includes representation from a variety of partner agencies, including the state‘s Department of Housing (DOH), Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Melville Charitable Trust.

A key goal of the Funders Collaborative is to assess and understand what it will take to achieve a right-sized system, in which the scale of all housing intervention types (i.e. permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, interim housing including emergency shelter and transitional housing, and diversion) matches the needs of people experiencing homelessness. The Funders Collaborative also hopes to engage statewide stakeholders in ongoing dialogue and information-sharing opportunities around most effectively utilizing performance data to drive system and program-level improvements and achieve even greater reductions in homelessness. The Funders Collaborative engaged Focus Strategies to provide technical assistance and subject matter expertise to support these efforts.

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