IMPORTANT NOTICE: The HPRP Family Collaborative is no longer taking NEW applicants effective 8/1/11. This action is being taken to allow time for families currently on the waiting list to begin services prior to program completion. If your household is currently waiting for services, you will be contacted. If you need to update your contact information, or to see if you are on a waiting list, please contact the agency that you submitted your application to. Thank You !


The HPRP Family Collaborative is a joint effort led by Families In Transition of Santa Cruz County. This project will provide assistance to struggling families throughout Santa Cruz County in 2010 and 2011. 

Six Santa Cruz County Organizations are working together to provide temporary support for rent and support services to local families to help them through the economic crisis.

In order to be eligible for help Families must be:

  • Homeless ( in a shelter, timing out of transitional housing, fleeing domestic violence or living on the street

                                        -or-

  • At severe risk of losing their housing. For Homeless Prevention the household must have a lease in their name and an eviction notice from the landlord.

 

-and-

Total Current Monthly Household Income

Must Fall Under the Following Amounts

2010 Monthly Area Median 
        
50% of Median

 Number in Household:

  1:  33,000

  2:  38,600

  3:  43,450

  4:  48,250

  5:  52,150

  6:  56,000

  7:  59,850

  8:  63,700 

                   

-and-

 

  • Have no other suitable options or resources for housing support.

 

-and-

 

  • Must be experiencing at least one of the following high risk factors:

       1.  Sudden Loss of Income

       2.  Recent Traumatic Event

       3.  Child under the age of 2

       4.  Head of Household under 25

       5.  Farmworker Family

       6.  TANF Assistance

       7.  Fleeing Domestic Violence

 

Because this assistance is temporary Families must also have a reasonable plan that will enable them to keep their housing long term.

 

Families who meet the guidelines may receive assistance with :

  • Rent to move into and stabilize housing
  • Up to six months of back rent
  • Rent to prevent eviction

Each type of assistance has specific rules and limitations on use.

 

Households who are eligible for help will receive support in developing a housing stabilization plan that may include : budgeting, linkage to resources, housing search support and related assistance as appropriate to the family situation.

If you need help and meet these criteria please contact

Families In Transition for more information: 

 

Ariana Martin

831-458-7125

ari@fitsantacruz.org

 

 

Please keep in mind that the eligibility requirements for assistance are very detailed, for both the family and the housing, and not evey family in need of help will be eligible.

 

If You Are Working with One of the Partner Agencies, please contact that organization to see if you are eligible for this program

 

Pajaro Valley Shelter Services

 www.pvshelter.org

Salvation Army of Watsonville

www.usasalvationarmy.org

 Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Monterey Bay 

 

 

 

Siena House Maternity Home

 

New Life Community Services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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