Family Crisis, Shelter and Homeless Prevention Program

Clinch Valley Community Action offers a Homeless Prevention Program that seeks to prevent the displacement of individuals and families from their homes as a result of eviction or foreclosure, assist homeless individuals and families in securing permanent housing and provide training and education component to ensure self-sufficiency. Shelter may also be provided under the Family Crisis Services.

Applicants must :

• be in imminent danger of losing their home or apartment through eviction;
• be in imminent danger of displacement if in temporary housing;
• be in a temporary financial crisis due to an unavoidable circumstance such as a temporary illness, job layoff, loss of daycare or transportation for employment, delay in the approval of benefits, homelessness or domestic violence;
• have been self-sufficient prior to their crisis and the crisis must not be chronic;
• have total income that does not exceed the HUD mandated lower income limits in the area where they reside;
• have exhausted their own resources and all others available.