On Monday, Bridge to Home Homeless Services held its groundbreaking ceremony for the organization’s new shelter on Drayton Street in Newhall. Bridge to Home’s groundbreaking ceremony was held this week for its new Drayton Street shelter, with many City of Santa Clarita officials in attendance. “We’re very grateful for the support of the City of Santa Clarita, so thank you ...

On Monday, Family Promise of Santa Clarita held a groundbreaking ceremony for the organization’s new resource center and housing units. This week, the groundbreaking of Family Promise of Santa Clarita’s new resource center and housing units was held by the organization on an open plot of land in the 23600 block of Newhall Avenue in Newhall, with several notable speakers ...

Cases of coronavirus among persons experiencing homeless have declined in recent months as the rate of transmission has slowed across Los Angeles County, officials said.  With continued countywide slowing transmission of COVID-19, cases among people experiencing homelessness have declined from 188 weekly cases in August to 107 new cases reported this week, according to the Los Angeles County Department of ...

While Santa Clarita Valley volunteers often bring meals to the Bridge to Home shelter, the program also features a weekly breakfast event on Saturdays known as the ‘Breakfast Club.’  The Breakfast Club is a weekly breakfast event held on Saturdays for homeless patrons of the Bridge to Home homeless shelter in Santa Clarita. “The thing that’s unique about what we ...

To combat rising homelessness across the Santa Clarita Valley, the Community Task Force on Homelessness launched a website designed as a one-stop destination for locals to access homelessness services. In a statement released Monday, officials announced that the City of Santa Clarita teamed up with the Community Task Force on Homelessness to launch a new website devoted to attacking rising ...

The number of deaths amongst people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County increased to a record 1,267 in 2019 with drug overdoses the leading cause with the greatest increase, according to a recent report. This is the second annual report from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) on mortality among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in LA County ...

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded $6.4 million in rental assistance and housing vouchers to help veterans at risk of experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County, including those in Santa Clarita, officials said Thursday.  The supportive housing assistance is provided through the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Program, which combines rental assistance from HUD ...

Family Promise of Santa Clarita is celebrating 10 years of operation this year, and are asking for donations to help homeless families during the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Despite COVID-19 “radically” impacting the program when all 13 host congregations closed in March, Family Promise of Santa Clarita Valley rose to the new challenges in order to continue supporting those in need, according ...

Bridge to Home announced the launch of Project 30, a new initiative to house the most vulnerable homeless neighbors by Jan. 5, 2021.  This project is the next step following the end of Project Room Key, a program in partnership with the state of California and local counties to secure hotel and motel rooms for vulnerable people experiencing homelessness. During ...

Results from the 2020 Los Angeles County Homeless Count indicate that while the total number of people experiencing homelessness has increased in the county, the number of homeless individuals has decreased in Santa Clarita. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) released the community-level data from the 2020 “point-in-time” homeless count, which was conducted in January before the ...