The continuum of care (COC) program is designed to promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, states, and local…

The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded Covenant House Alaska $281,138 on October 1, 2025, under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), with final performance ending September 30, 2026. This is a Project Grant.

The award supports the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program (YHDP) component of the Continuum of Care, which serves households where no person exceeds age 24. Covenant House Alaska will establish and operate projects within five eligible program components: permanent housing (including permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities and rapid rehousing), transitional housing, supportive services only, homeless management information systems (HMIS), and homelessness prevention in some cases. Eligible costs include leasing, operations, and staffing for these projects.

The Continuum of Care Program aims to promote community-wide commitment to ending homelessness, quickly house homeless individuals and families while minimizing trauma and dislocation, improve access to mainstream programs for homeless populations, and optimize self-sufficiency. The YHDP specifically supports development and implementation of a coordinated community approach to preventing and ending youth homelessness.

Work is performed in Anchorage, Alaska. Covenant House Alaska, a nonprofit focused on serving homeless, runaway, and trafficked youth under age 24, is the recipient. The organization collaborates with sub-award partners including Cook Inlet Housing Authority, Alaska Department of Military and Veteran's Affairs, and the State of Alaska Department of Health to deliver emergency shelter, transitional housing, street outreach, education and employment support, case management, and specialized interventions for at-risk youth.

Activities

These grants may be used to pay for the eligible costs used to establish and operate projects under five program components: 1. Permanent housing, which includes permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, and rapid rehousing; 2. Transitional housing; 3. Supportive services only; 4. Homeless management information systems (hmis); and 5. Homelessness prevention (in some cases). Eligible costs within these projects include: 1. Leasing of a structure or structures, or portions thereof, to provide housing or supportive services; 2. Rental assistance, which may be short-term, medium-term, or long-term, as well as tenant-based, project-based, or sponsor-based, for transitional or permanent housing; 3. Supportive services to assist program participants obtain and maintain housing; 4. Operating costs of supportive housing; 5. Costs of implementing and operating hmis; 6. Project administrative costs; 7. Relocation costs; and 8. Indirect costs in accordance with 2 CFR parts 200, as applicable. In addition to using grant funds for the eligible costs described above, recipients and subrecipients in continuums of care designated as high performing communities may also use grant funds to provide housing relocation and stabilization services and short- and/or medium-term rental assistance to youth at risk of homelessness as set forth in 24 CFR 576.103 and 24 CFR 576.104, if necessary to prevent youth from becoming homeless. No assistance provided under program (or any state or local government funds used to supplement this assistance) may be used to replace state or local funds previously used, or designated for use, to assist homeless persons or persons at-risk of homelessness.

Expected outcomes

Decrease in the number of youth experiencing homelessness, more specifically using performance indicators such as the length of time homeless, returns to homelessness over time, and exits to permanent housing. COC performance profile reports can be found at: https://WWW.hudexchange.info/programs/COC/COC-performance-profile-reports/

Intended beneficiaries

Youth defined as households where no person is over the age of 24

Subrecipient activities

The subrecipient activities are unknown at the time of award