Cuyahoga County Launches Pay for Success Program for Homeless Families

The Nonprofit Finance Fund has announced that Cuyahoga County, which encompasses the greater Cleveland area, will launch the first county-level Pay for Success (PFS) project aimed at reducing the amount of time children whose families are homeless stay in foster care. In partnership with FrontLine Service, a service provider for the homeless in Northeast Ohio, the Partnering for Family Success Program will provide case management services to a hundred and thirty-five homeless families over five years. The first PFS project in the nation to address the areas of homelessness and child welfare will deliver twelve to fifteen months of "Critical Time Intervention," an approach that provides intensive services upfront to help reconnect homeless families to community support networks and settle them in family-appropriate housing. Click here to read more.