In the 2004-05 fiscal year, the the Health & Human Services Working Group distributed $267,784 in funds as part of a county wide effort for the prevention of family homelessness – using strategies of enhancing financial literacy and increasing enrollment into educational and job training programs.

Bronze Triangle Community Development Corporation
Family Economic Success
$24,875
To help families in the Bronze Triangle reduce their vulnerability to homelessness and achieve economic success through financial education that results in long term savings strategies.

Casa Familiar, Inc.
Casa Familiar Financial Literacy & Education Program
$25,000
To improve the financial future and stability of Spanish speaking, low to very low income families of South San Diego to prevent them from becoming homeless.

Community HousingWorks
Financial Fitness Training
$25,000
To provide very low- to moderate-income individuals with the knowledge and skills to successfully manage money, increase family asset building and achieve financial goals to reduce their chances of becoming homeless.

The Elizabeth Hospice
Spanish Speaking Volunteer Training
$10,909
To train Spanish speaking volunteers to increase the Elizabeth Hospice's ability to serve working poor families in San Diego.

Grossmont Hospital Foundation
Safe Haven Services
$16,000
To ensure terminally ill indigent, underinsured/uninsured individuals receive hospice care at an appropriate facility, and are assisted with supplemental healthcare and daily living needs so that they do not spend the last days of ther terminal illness homeless.

Horn of Africa Community in N. America
The Somali Family Literacy Project
$25,000
To increase the financial self-sufficiency and economic stability and to improve access to affordable housing for East Africans reducing homlessness in East African families in the central region of San Diego County.

MAAC Project
Individual & Family Self-Sufficiency Program
$25,000
To reduce vulnerability to homelessness in low-income families through financial education, credit management, and asset development.

San Diego Home Loan Counseling Service, Inc.
Financial Keys to preventing homelessness
$25,000
To assist low and moderate income families in making better financial decisions to foster homeownership.

San Diego County Hospice Corporation
Unreimbursed Care Program
$16,000
To ensure every individual living in the end stages of a terminal disease who approach the hospice receives expert and compassionate, end-of-life care regardless of their ability to pay rather becoming homeless.

South Bay Community Services
Gànalo y Ahorra, Creating Financial Self-Sufficiency and Independence for Low-Income Families
$25,000
To enhance the financial literacy of residents living in SBCS' affordable and transitional housing in order to motivate them to increase their savings, thus increasing their self-sufficiency and the stability of their home environment.

Vista Community Clinic
Vista Community Clinic Kare for Kids Fund
$50,000
To provide comprehensive health and dental care services to all North San Diego County children, regardless of the family's ability to pay for treatment to in turn reduce these working poor families vulnerability to homelessness due to large medical bills.

2007-2008 Health & Human Services Grantees

2006-2007 Health & Human Services Grantees

2005-2006 Health & Human Services Grantees