FY 2025-26 ESG Program Funding Plan
Program Summaries
Administration (7.5% cap)
Project Title Organization Funding Description
ESG Program
Administration
City of Santa
Ana
Community
Development
Agency
(CDA)
$28,300
The program will provide for the overall administration of the ESG Program, to include: preparation and submission of required contracts with HUD, submission of all reporting requirements, provision of individual project oversight, monitoring of all project implementation and ongoing completion, and fiscal management and oversight. Program Administration is performed by a combination of staff and professional consultants. Proposed funding amount calculated based off 7.5% admin cap.
Homelessness Shelter and Outreach Services (60% cap)
HEART
Program
Homelessness
Outreach &
Engagement
City of Santa
Ana Police
Department
$56,885
Santa Ana Police Department, in partnership with local service providers, conducts proactive outreach to individuals experiencing homelessness.
Officers connect individuals to emergency shelters such as the Carnegie Shelter and Yale Navigation Center, and coordinate transportation and mental health services through the County PERT team. To reduce homelessness and promote long-term stability, focused on a housing-first approach, efforts are targeted in areas impacted by calls for service, community complaints, and visible encampments.
Domestic
Violence
Homeless
Shelter
Interval
House $80,000
Interval House provides life-saving shelter and support to homeless victims of domestic violence and their children from the most underserved communities in Santa Ana. Interval House shelter programs offer a safe, caring, and homelike environment for adults, adolescents, and children in life-threatening situations who are left homeless as a result of domestic violence. Additional specialized support services: Comprehensive counseling; legal; health and wellness; financial management; employment counseling; permanent housing; and other services as needed, provided by skilled counselors in over 70 languages.
Shelter for
Unhoused
Youth
Covenant
House $40,000
Covenant House operates a 20-bed emergency housing program for youth aged 18-24 experiencing homelessness. All participants receive a standardized assessment, case management, crisis intervention, meals, physical and mental healthcare linkages, substance use/recovery services, and education/life skills curriculum.
EXHIBIT 5
FY 2025-26 ESG Program Funding Plan
Program Summaries
Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Rehousing
Rapid Rehousing
(short term and
long-term rental
assistance/security
deposits)
Volunteers of
America Los
Angeles
$57,000
Volunteers of America Los Angeles (VOALA) serves people experiencing homelessness in various areas throughout Orange County, including Santa Ana. Target populations include: veterans, chronically homeless individuals/families, families with children, survivors of domestic violence, youth, elderly, families, and individuals with disabilities and/or substance use disorders. Rapid Rehousing services include intake, and individualized housing and service plan, and provision of case management, housing navigation, and linkages to services and resources. Navigation includes support in identifying access to affordable units, negotiating rentals, reviewing lease agreements, and securing habitable residences. In addition to navigation, VOALA provides rapid rehousing recipients case management, budgeting, referrals to public benefits, and overall post-move-in stabilization.
Rapid Rehousing
for
unaccompanied
homeless women
WISEPlace $57,000
WISEPlace provides trauma-informed care and services to unaccompanied women experiencing homelessness. The organization provides case management, employment support, and financial empowerment to women from age 18 to 65 and older. The women served include young women leaving foster care, those who have suffered from domestic violence or human trafficking, those who experienced a financial catastrophe, or women recovering from drug abuse, alcohol abuse or incarceration. WISEPlace’s Rapid Rehousing services include case management, financial empowerment curriculum, housing search support and placement, financial support, such as deposit assistance, security deposits, help with moving costs and utilities.
Data Collection HMIS (3%)
HMIS – Homeless
Management
Information
System
Orange County
United Way $58,146
Orange County United Way will facilitate HMIS coordination, communication, training, and technical assistance of Santa Ana ESG sub-recipients to ensure adherence to data quality, supporting the City's efforts to fully comply with the HEARTH Act of 2009. Orange County United Way will: provide user meetings, perform agency audits, provide training/technical assistance, run data quality reports to post and make available online, complete project set-ups, update the dashboard on a monthly basis.
Total Funding $377,330
EXHIBIT 5
FY 2025-26 ESG Program Funding Plan
Program Summaries
EXHIBIT 5