RFP - Consultant Services - 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness
10 Year Plan to End Homelessness
Continuum of Care Consortium, LaPorte County, Indiana
Submittal Deadline: August 13, 2008
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
Unity Foundation of LaPorte County, Inc., on behalf of the Home Team of LaPorte County, requests proposals for professional consulting services to assist in the development of a Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness ("Plan") in LaPorte County, Indiana.
LaPorte County will undertake development of the Plan as a framework for effectively addressing how the County/Home Team can better meet the most basic needs of all residents. The purpose of the RFP is to provide interested consultant firms with sufficient information to enable the firms to prepare and submit proposals to assist the Home Team in stabilizing and sustaining critical services to the homeless through creation of a countywide 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.
Key Principles:
Prevent homelessness before it occurs.
Move people quickly to stable housing with the necessary supportive services to achieve self-sufficiency.
Build the public and political will to sustain our efforts and bring an end to homelessness.
lign resources for success in ending homelessness.
LaPorte County's 10 year Plan to End Homelessness ("Plan") should document our commitment to ending homelessness in LaPorte County by 2018 and outline strategies that will support this goal. The Plan should be comprehensive with respect to the total homeless population and each of the three sub-categories (Chronic, Transitional and Emergency). Objectives of the Plan are to: (a) clearly define the problem, (b) gain public awareness, (c) mobilize support for innovative solutions, (d) use resources more effectively, and (e) to procure various types of funding.
COMPLETE RFP PACKET MAY BE DOWNLOADED AT: http://www.uflc.net/rfp10year.doc
PROPOSALS DUE: 4:00 p.m. (CST) on August 13, 2008
Contact
Sue Korte Regetz, Vice President
Unity Foundation of LaPorte County
619 Franklin Street, PO Box 527
Michigan City, IN 46361
219-879-0327
skorteregetz@uflc.net
