Programs We Fund
There are a few questions we hear a lot: Where do my tax dollars go? What is Yakima County doing to address homelessness? What social service programs exist in our community and what do they do?
On this page, you can find an overview of the programs funded by the Yakima County Department of Human Services through the Consolidated Homeless Grant (State funding) and 2163 dollars (Local funding).
For a broader overview of performance data for publicly funded programs in Yakima County, please see our data page.
- Outreach
- Coordinated Entry
- Shelter/Sanctioned Encampment
- Capital Improvement
- Rental Assistance
- Permanent Supportive Housing
Funding is allocated for 2 years (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2024)
Grace City Outreach
Amount: $62,370
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for offering street outreach for those experiencing homelessness and ensuring that data is captured in the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS).
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Generating Hope
Amount: $7,005
Program description: This contract awards Generating Hope to administer an outreach program. .
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Rod's House Outreach
Amount: $15,000
Program description: This contract awards Rod's House to administer an outreach program
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $37,630
Program description: This contract awards Yakima Neighborhood Health Services to administer a outreach project.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Funding is allocated for 2 years (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2024)
Adults
Yakima Union Gospel Mission
Amount: $10,625
Program Description: For outreach funding to assist in participation of HMIS and Coordinated Entry.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 4
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic DBA Northwest Community Action Center
Amount: $9,350
Program Description: To administer a Coordinated Entry services project.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Young Adults
Rod's House
Amount: $7,500
Program description: Serve as a Coordinated Entry Access Point for Young Adults.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed:
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Funding is allocated for 2 years (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2024)
Emergency Shelter
Grace City Outreach
Amount: $222,960
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for administering a low-barrier 24-hour shelter in the City of Yakima
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Generating Hope
Amount: $39,682
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for operating a low-barrier 24-hour shelter in the south valley.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Rod's House
Amount: $60,000
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for operating an emergency shelter for youth and young adults in the South Valley
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $34,837.50
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for administering a 24 hour low barrier temporary medical respite program for people experiencing homelessness who are too ill or injured to recover on the streets but are not sick enough to be hospitalized.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Youth and Young Adult Shelter
Grace City Outreach
Amount: $50,000
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for providing an emergency shelter for youth and young adults.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Rod's House
Amount; $52,383
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for operating a low-barrier 24-hour shelter for youth and young adults.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Catholic Charities Diocese of Yakima
Amount: $97,146
Program description: This contract awards Catholic Charities Diocese of Yakima to operate youth and young adults housing program
Contract (July 1,2022-June 30,2023)
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Extreme Winter Weather Shelter
Rod's House
Amount: $28,375
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for providing an emergency extreme winter weather shelter for youth and young adults. The Extreme Winter Weather Shelter program focus on protecting young adults from exposure-related conditions such as hypothermia and frostbite.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2, Goal 4, Goal 5
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic DBA Northwest Community Action Center
Amount: $25,812.50
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for providing motel/hotel vouchers and extreme winter weather for individuals and families for whom other emergency shelter options are not appropriate or accessible.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $25,812.50
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for funding an extreme winter weather shelter.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Domestic Violence Shelter
YWCA
Amount: $70,000
Program description: The Contractor awards YWCA Yakima to operate a domestics violence Shelter
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 5
Contract (Year 1, July 1, 2022-June 30,2023)
Contract Mod 1Contract Mod 1 (Grants an additional $20,930)
Contract (Year 2, July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
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The Lighthouse - Advocacy, Prevention, and Education Center
Amount: $40,073
Program description: The Contractor awards The lighthouse to operate a domestic violence shelter in Lower/South Valley
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2, Goal 5
Contract (Year 2, July 1, 2022-June 30,2023)
Contract (Year 2, July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022)
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Youth and Young Adult Shelter
Rod’s House
Amount: $134,034
Program description: The purpose of this agreement is to administer Shelter in Sunnyside with Shelter grant funding.
Contract (February 1, 2021-June 30, 2023)
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Shelter
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $194,184
Program description: The purpose of this agreement is to administer hotel/motel beds with Shelter grant funding.
Contract (February 1, 2021-June 30, 2023)
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Rod’s House
Amount: $134,034
Program description: The purpose of this agreement is to administer Shelter in Sunnyside with Shelter grant funding.
Contract (February 1, 2021-June 30, 2023)
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Funding is allocated for 2 years (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2024)
Rod's House
Amount: $125,000
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for funding an emergency shelter for youth and young adults capital project.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed:
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Funding is allocated for 2 years (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2024)
Housing and Essential Needs
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $500,000
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for administering a housing essential needs project.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Rapid Rehousing
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $150,000
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for administering a rental assistance/rapid rehousing program for transitioning individuals from homelessness to being stably housed.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2, Goal 3
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic DBA Northwest Community Action Center
Amount: $211,225
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for administering a rental assistance/rapid rehousing program.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Federal Emergency Rent Assistance Program (COVID-19 Response)
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $3,144,944
Program description: The U.S Department of the Treasury Emergency Rental Program Grant is intended to prevent evictions by paying past due and future rent while targeting limited resources to those with the greatest needs and distributing funds equitably. See more details here.
Contract (From July 1, 2021-Sepember 30, 2025)
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Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic DBA Northwest Community Action Center
Amount: $1,257,977
Program description: The U.S Department of the Treasury Emergency Rental Program Grant is intended to prevent evictions by paying past due and future rent while targeting limited resources to those with the greatest needs and distributing funds equitably. See more details here.
Contract (From July 1, 2021-Sepember 30, 2025)
Contract Mod 1 (This modification corrects a typo in the budget, from $23,994.80 to $123,994.80 and updates county contact information).
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OIC of Washington
Amount: $754,786
Program description: The U.S Department of the Treasury Emergency Rental Program Grant is intended to prevent evictions by paying past due and future rent while targeting limited resources to those with the greatest needs and distributing funds equitably. See more details here.
Contract (From July 1, 2021-Sepember 30, 2025)
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Catholic Charities Diocese of Yakima
Amount: $943,484
Program description: The U.S Department of the Treasury Emergency Rental Program Grant is intended to prevent evictions by paying past due and future rent while targeting limited resources to those with the greatest needs and distributing funds equitably. See more details here.
Contract (From July 1, 2021-Sepember 30, 2025)
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Radio KDNA
Amount: $1,257,977
Program description: The U.S Department of the Treasury Emergency Rental Program Grant is intended to prevent evictions by paying past due and future rent while targeting limited resources to those with the greatest needs and distributing funds equitably. See more details here.
Contract (From July 1, 2021-Sepember 30, 2025)
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Funding is allocated for 2 years (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2024)
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $80,138
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for funding a permanent supportive housing capital project.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2, Goal 3
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
Amount: $204,768
Program description: The Contractor will be responsible for funding a permanent supportive housing project.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 2, Goal 3
Contract (July1, 2022-June 30, 2023
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic DBA Northwest Community Action Center
Amount: $337,000
Program description: The contractor will be responsible for funding an efficient and effective homeless response system that prioritizes and focuses first on putting people into stable housing.
5-Year Plan Goals Addressed: Goal 1, Goal 2
Contract (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023)
Our Accountability Metrics
Population Accountability
State Priority Populations | Individuals and households experiencing unsheltered homelessness |
Local Priority Populations | Individuals experiencing chronic homelessness |
Performance Measures | Increase in percent unsheltered served – at least 60% of services should be for unsheltered homeless households and households fleeing violence OR an increase of at least 5% annually Reduction of priority populations experiencing homelessness to functional zero |
Program Accountability
5-Year Plan Goals | Quickly identify and engage people experiencing homelessness through outreach and coordination between every system that encounters people experiencing homelessness Operate an effective and efficient homeless crisis response system that swiftly moves people into stable permanent housing Support the development of adequate affordable housing and permanent supportive housing Track and publish data regarding homelessness in Yakima County Address disparities among people experiencing homelessness and create resources to meet the needs of priority populations |
Performance Measures | Increased exits to permanent housing Reduced returns to homelessness after exits to permanent housing Reduced average length of time experiencing homelessness Data is collected and reported accurately Participation in HMIS and Coordinated Entry |
Fiscal Accountability
Expectations | Administrative expenses do not exceed 6% of total expenditures Funds are evenly disbursed throughout the contract period, or program communicates a clear understanding of how to maintain their operating costs once the grant funds have been utilized For Rental Assistance, HEN, and PSH contracts, rental assistance is a minimum of 67% of total expenditures Reimbursement paperwork is submitted by the 10th of every month Reimbursement requests are submitted with minimal errors Submitted reimbursement requests are allowable per the funding source and the contract, grant recipients understand the scope of allowability for their funding |
Performance Measures | Administrative expenses do not exceed 6% of total expenditures For Rental Assistance, HEN, and PSH contracts, rental assistance is a minimum of 67% of total expenditures Less than 25% of reimbursement requests are submitted late over the length of the contract period Less than 25% of reimbursement requests need to be resubmitted due to clerical errors over the length of the contract period |
Five-Year Plan Alignment
The Goals of the Yakima County 5-Year Plan are as follows: