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The Hrc

The Bezos Day One Fund’s vision is straightforward: No child sleeps outside. To achieve this, the Amazon founder’s Day 1 Families Fund enlists the help of strategic nonprofit partners capable of doing compassionate, needle-moving work to provide shelter and hunger support to address the immediate needs of families.

In November 2021, Adopt-A-Family received a fiveyear, $5 million Day 1 Families Fund grant to expand and expedite services to Palm Beach County families experiencing unsheltered homelessness. This made the agency one of only 32 nonprofits to be tapped in 2021, and the only Florida organization selected.

The Family Division of the HRC also makes direct referrals to these Adopt-A-Family programs:

Program REACH 19-unit family emergency shel ter.

Scattered-site motel shelter program with accompanying case management services.

Permanent Supportive Housing on Adopt-A-Family’s Lake Worth campus.

Operating through the HRC, Adopt-AFamily’s Day 1 efforts are built around three pillars:

Diversion, a nimble method that relies on creative approaches to finding housing.

Additional units of short-stay motel shelter, so no children have to sleep in cars or parks while a permanent housing situation is found.

Rapid Re-Housing, which helps families locate homes they can afford and provides long-term case management and other supports.