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Sheltercare Receives Grant To Help House Homeless

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Sheltercare of Lane County has received a half million dollars to get mentally ill homeless people into housing. That’s as the Eugene City Council passed a resolution calling for a Housing First model to address homelessness.

Ban: “It is housing first.”
Susan Ban is Executive Director for Sheltercare.
Ban: “So that we’ll be taking people who have long histories of homelessness and also a diagnosis of a psychiatric disability and putting them in housing and then wrapping services around them.”
The 556 thousand dollar grant from the Oregon Health Authority will help Sheltercare house up to 30 individuals. Ban says the funds are targeted toward veterans and young adults. Teens coming out of foster care are particularly vulnerable to homelessness. Sheltercare plans to partner with other agencies to provide the housing and services.
Sheltercare already manages 200 units for people who have come out of homelessness in the Eugene Springfield area.
 

Rachael McDonald is KLCC’s former News Director. Rachael has a BA in English from the University of Oregon. She started out in public radio as a newsroom volunteer at KLCC in 2000. After reporting for the Northwest News Network and KAZU, Rachael returned to KLCC in 2007 as Morning Edition host and a general assignment reporter covering politics, the environment, education, and the arts. She was hired as KLCC News Director in 2018. Rachael departed KLCC in June, 2022.
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