Nearly $3 million in federal grant funds will be dispersed to nonprofits with the goal of addressing and preventing youth homelessness in the Omaha metro area.
The funding is part of the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program, which is administered through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. The money was awarded to Omaha’s Threshold CoC in late 2024, but grantee organizations were announced just this week.
Continuums of Care, or CoCs, have been established by HUD in most major metropolitan areas. They work with businesses, government agencies and service providers like shelters and food pantries to coordinate the community-wide response to homelessness. Threshold CoC, which covers Douglas and Sarpy counties in Nebraska and Pottawattamie County in Iowa, was established in 1996…