2014 Year In Review

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HOMELESS PREVENTION
MISSION: The mission of Decade to Doorways is to maximize
current resources and develop new ones, making each as
efficient and useful as possible with the end goal of preventing
and ending homelessness in Chester County within 10 years.
VISION: To ensure a community wide network of services to
prevent and end homelessness in Chester County by shifting
from a system that manages homelessness to a system that
diverts, prevents and rapidly re-houses.
2014 EMERGENCY HOUSING DATA
POINT IN TIME 2014 DATA
2,346 unduplicated
callers to
ConnectPoints
39 237 337
were
unsheltered
were in
emergency
shelters
were in
transitional
housing
38 11 14
utilizing
motel
subsidies
unstably
housed
unaccompanied
youth
684 individuals were experiencing
homelessness on the night of
January 29,2014
2014 EMERGENCY SHELTER DATA
799
337
people stayed in
emergency shelters
moved into
permanent housing
adults
695 + 246
children
stayed in Chester County emergency housing,
making up a total of 941 unduplicated people
experiencing homelessness in 2014
For Emergency Housing Assistance,
Call ConnectPoints at (800) 935-3181
or visit
“ It’s great that the kids have a
roof over their heads and we
have somewhere to go at night.”
— Juanita