Working to prevent and end homelessness

Welcome to Homeward

Our mission is to prevent, reduce and end homelessness by facilitating creative solutions through the collaboration, coordination and cooperation of regional resources and services.

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Are you Homeless and looking for help?

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Real Change - It’s great that you want to give, but giving to panhandlers is not the best way to help. Learn more about the agencies working to prevent and end homelessness in the Richmond region.

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What is Rapid Re-Housing? - Rapid re-housing is a service model designed to immediately return those who are losing or lost their housing back to permanent housing and shorten the length of shelter stays for families and individuals.

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Winter Point in Time Count:The percentage of people experiencing homelessness who report that they are unemployed increased from 2008 to 2009 by approximately 7-8%. After completing the Winter Point in Time Count on January 21st, Homeward will report new findings on homelessness, employment, mental health, and substance abuse in Richmond, VA.

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Project Homeless Connect matches clients with volunteers in a one-of-a-kind partnership to assist chronically homeless adults connect to as many on-site services as possible in one day.

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Hospitality Warms Cold Day for the Homeless For homeless people such as David Burnett, a heavy snowfall is something to be endured, not cherished.

Welcome to Homeward

Change is possible. Homelessness can be solved.

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United Way Campaign Info

Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) # 45479

Local Governments & Schools (LGS) # 373

General Donations # 4197

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Ten Year Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness [1.56 MB]
State of Homelessness Report 2009 Update [808 KB]
State of Homelessness Report 2007 [16.4 MB]
Federal Stimulus Toolkit [1.85 MB]
System Map
Street Sheet (English, Spanish) [162 KB]
10 Things You Can Do [85.1 KB]
Summer 2009 PIT Count
Newsletter [4.28 MB]