San Diego Veterans

Practice Area: Diversion and ReentryEconomic MobilityWorkforce Pathways Scope: City Location: CA Status: Closed

Project Overview

Veterans across the country face numerous barriers as they seek to reenter the workforce. While many supportive services are available to veterans, the process of navigating through a local network can be daunting. Project (re)Launch will seek to ameliorate this issue by expanding access to 2-1-1 San Diego’s Courage to Call (C2C) service offering, a closed-loop case management service that connects veterans to over 1,200 mental health, housing and financial assistance providers in the San Diego area, and coupling the C2C program with the VA’s Vocational Rehabilitiation and Employment (VR&E) program. Third Sector is providing technical assistance/project structuring support to 2-1-1 on the project. Veterans that are enrolled in the VR&E vocational training program will be assigned a navigator from C2C that will help assess the veteran’s needs, refer them to appropriate supportive services, and track their progress towards barrier removal through 2-1-1’s Community Information Exchange data platform, a system that allows 2-1-1 to interface with service providers in its network to track participant progress. Our theory of change is that if veterans are well-equipped to remove health related barriers as they go through vocational training and the job search process, they will have an easier time achieving desired employment outcomes.

Practice area:

Diversion and Reentry

Third Sector works with our government agencies and communities to shift our criminal-legal system toward diversion and community-based models that make housing and support services more accessible to all.
Project NameScopeLocationStatus
Pennsylvania DOC REACH ProjectStatePAClosed
Third Sector worked with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to expand its existing Housing Assistance Program via an outcomes-based contract to serve reentrants with limited ability to earn an income due to disability and/or older age. The expanded program – ReEntrants Attaining Community Housing (REACH) – will provide enhanced case management and financial assistance to those reentrants, and PADOC will use federal DOJ Second Chance Act Grant dollars to make bonus payments to providers for achievement of initial housing placement, permanent housing placement, and recidivism reduction outcomes. Third Sector supported PADOC in developing the procurement and outcomes contract by co-designing the eligibility criteria, outcomes, and data tools for continuous improvement with PADOC and their providers.
California Interagency Council on HomelessnessStateCAClosed
From March 2022 to December 2023, Third Sector advised counties receiving Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) funds on how to improve state performance goals through various outcomes contracting and continuous improvement strategies. Third Sector also advised the 13 state departments in the state's Funding and Programs Working Group to act on various policy and program priorities by developing a racial equity data plan to improve system coordination and administrative efficiency, a pathway for counties to escalate persistent challenges that require more state support, guidance, or collective problem-solving; and peer-learning forums across state and county departments.
Practice Area Managing Director, Diversion & Reentry
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