Text Box: 115 West Main Street, LL~ Columbus ~ Ohio ~ 43215 614/221-9195 ~ 614/221-9199 fax ~ www.csb.org Text Box: Rebuilding Lives

Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness
Text Box: Rebuilding Lives The Rebuilding Lives initiative focuses on meeting the specific needs of individual persons who are homeless rather than employing a “one size fits all” approach to providing services. The Community Shelter Board’s plan to end the cycle of homelessness includes the creation of supportive housing which provides permanent, affordable housing linked to a range of support services such as counseling, job training, and other services designed to enable formerly homeless people achieve stability and maintain self-sufficiency. Text Box: The Funder Collaborative A collaboration of funders has been established to serve as a central source for affordable housing support. The Funder Collaborative is comprised of public and private organizations that provide funding and other resources for supportive housing projects. Together, the members of the Collaborative jointly develop strategy, program guidelines and standards, underwriting criteria, program evaluation, outcome measurement and reporting requirements. The Result The result is an efficient forum to identify and oversee the funding needed to develop and operate supportive housing in Franklin County. The goal is to develop more than 800 units of supportive housing. The Collaborative requests project proposals from agencies and developers that want to participate in the Rebuilding Lives initiative. Members ADAMH Board, David Royer City of Columbus Administration, Trudy Bartley Columbus City Council, Charleta B. Tavares The Columbus Foundation, Emily Savors Columbus/Franklin County Housing Trust Corporation, Mark Milligan Columbus Health Department, Teresa Long Columbus Mayor’s Office, Carla Williams-Scott Columbus Medical Association Foundation, Phil Cass Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, Dennis Guest Community Shelter Board, Board of Trustees Mary Lou Langenhop Corporation for Supportive Housing, Sally Luken Franklin County Department of Job & Family Services, Tom Scheid Franklin County MR/DD, Jed Morrison Franklin County Administration, Anthony Forte Franklin County Office on Aging, Antonia Carroll Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission Kathy Werkmeister Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, Hal Keller Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Terri Donlin United Way of Central Ohio, Janet E. Jackson Veteran’s Service Commission, David Bradley Text Box: For more information on how you can help support the Community Shelter Board’s programs and services please contact Barbara Poppe, CSB Executive Director, at (614) 221-9195 or visit our web site at www.csb.org. Contributions can be sent to: Community Shelter Board, 115 West Main Street, LL, Columbus, OH 43215.