STREET TO HOME 2.0
In 2023, FCI launched Street to Home 2.0 with coalition partners (Akido & HOPICS) to accelerate housing placement and improve housing retention. Together coalition partners designed a new approach that eliminates the numerous case manager handoffs typically experienced by unhoused individuals and, rather, assigns a single case manager who can follow an individual from street to home. Moreover, this model provides the critical medical care unhoused individuals need in-house and on-site, including mental health services, addiction medicine, and chronic disease management. Ultimately, this initiative aims to achieve faster housing placements and better retention rates.
In the past year, we have successfully secured funding and implemented this care model in Kern and Los Angeles Counties. Preliminary data shows that we can go from the initial visit to securing a housing voucher in as little as four weeks. This initiative also demonstrates how directing homeless services funding can increase efficiency and effectiveness.
STREET TO HOME 2.0 IS CHANGING LIVES
LA WORKING CAPITAL FUND
In 2024, FCI launched an initiative to establish a LA Working Capital Fund to provide zero cost capital to community-based organizations (CBOs) that address homelessness in Los Angeles. These nonprofit CBOs often lack necessary working capital to bridge the gap between when they must meet obligations—such as payroll or rent—and when they receive cash payment from the entities that contract with them or promise them grants. Despite holding substantial and often overdue invoices, it’s difficult for CBOs to access working capital to bridge this gap. This problem not only prevents homeless services agencies from getting results, it also disproportionately impacts smaller CBOs in underserved communities.
LAWCF has already done six transactions to provide over 110K of successful zero-cost bridge financings to support the homeless response in Los Angeles; our team was able to provide funding within 36 hours of the initial requests.
LA WORKING CAPITAL FUND IS CHANGING LIVES
LAURA
The LA Homeless Sector workforce is a significant part of our region’s economy. There are currently over 8,000 positions in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care homelessness services system—not counting the thousands of healthcare workers who serve the unhoused. When we successfully solve homelessness in Los Angeles, it will be the thousands of front-line workers—the case managers, outreach specialists, program managers, and others—who will carry us there. To support this workforce, FCI has envisioned a new institution called the Los Angeles Unhoused Response Academy (“LAURA”). The mission of LAURA is to build the capacity of the Los Angeles County homeless workforce—today and in the future. LAURA will provide an on-ramp for new talent, support those already hard at work to improve morale and reduce turnover, create a center for thought leadership, define a skills framework to light a path for professional growth, and advocate for better compensation.
In 2024, LAURA piloted a five day hands-on training program for a first cohort of LAURA Fellows to prepare them for front line work in skid row and soft-launched a sector-wide job board.
LAURA IS CHANGING LIVES
WHO WE ARE
Future Communities Institute (FCI) is a network of technologists, academic institutions and nonprofits who are partnering in unprecedented ways to disrupt and strengthen the social safety net. We are dedicated to creating a world where innovation is designed so that all communities can thrive.
STREET TO HOME 2.0
In 2023, FCI launched Street to Home 2.0 with coalition partners (Akido & HOPICS) to accelerate housing placement and improve housing retention. Together coalition partners designed a new approach that eliminates the numerous case manager handoffs typically experienced by unhoused individuals and, rather, assigns a single case manager who can follow an individual from street to home. Moreover, this model provides the critical medical care unhoused individuals need in-house and on-site, including mental health services, addiction medicine, and chronic disease management. Ultimately, this initiative aims to achieve faster housing placements and better retention rates.
In the past year, we have successfully secured funding and implemented this care model in Kern and Los Angeles Counties. Preliminary data shows that we can go from the initial visit to securing a housing voucher in as little as four weeks. This initiative also demonstrates how directing homeless services funding can increase efficiency and effectiveness.
LA WORKING CAPITAL FUND
In 2024, FCI launched an initiative to establish a LA Working Capital Fund to provide zero cost capital to community-based organizations (CBOs) that address homelessness in Los Angeles. These nonprofit CBOs often lack necessary working capital to bridge the gap between when they must meet obligations—such as payroll or rent—and when they receive cash payment from the entities that contract with them or promise them grants. Despite holding substantial and often overdue invoices, it’s difficult for CBOs to access working capital to bridge this gap. This problem not only prevents homeless services agencies from getting results, it also disproportionately impacts smaller CBOs in underserved communities.
LAWCF has already done six transactions to provide over 110K of successful zero-cost bridge financings to support the homeless response in Los Angeles; our team was able to provide funding within 36 hours of the initial requests.
LAURA
The LA Homeless Sector workforce is a significant part of our region’s economy. There are currently over 8,000 positions in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care homelessness services system—not counting the thousands of healthcare workers who serve the unhoused. When we successfully solve homelessness in Los Angeles, it will be the thousands of front-line workers—the case managers, outreach specialists, program managers, and others—who will carry us there. To support this workforce, FCI has envisioned a new institution called the Los Angeles Unhoused Response Academy (“LAURA”). The mission of LAURA is to build the capacity of the Los Angeles County homeless workforce—today and in the future. LAURA will provide an on-ramp for new talent, support those already hard at work to improve morale and reduce turnover, create a center for thought leadership, define a skills framework to light a path for professional growth, and advocate for better compensation.
In 2024, LAURA piloted a five day hands-on training program for a first cohort of LAURA Fellows to prepare them for front line work in skid row and soft-launched a sector-wide job board.
OUR COLLABORATORS
We work across industries to build partnerships that catalyze access to high quality social services. We are tackling society’s most pressing issues, including homelessness, healthcare, housing and the future of work.
Street to Home
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Street to Home
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Street to Home
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Street to Home
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Street to Home
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Area of work
Street to Home
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Future of Work
Street to Home
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Area of work
Street to Home
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Street to Home
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Homelessness
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Area of work
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Area of work
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Area of work
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Future of Work
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Area of work
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Area of work
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Homelessness
Street to Home
We are pioneering an evidence-based doctor-led care model to bring our most vulnerable from the street into a home. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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Homelessness
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