Home for All, convened in 2009 by United Way of the Greater Seacoast as the Greater Seacoast Coalition to End Homelessness, is a partnership between service providers, government, business, education, healthcare, community leaders and other stakeholders. We are dedicated to mobilizing resources (human, financial, community), assisting with the ongoing assessment of needs and opportunities, and developing/implementing collaborative, coordinated and proven strategies for reducing, and ultimately eliminating, the issue of homelessness in the region.

Our History

With generous support from the United Way since 2009 and other funders, some highlights of Home for All’s successes include:

2023 With support from Granite United Way, the Northeast Credit Union Foundation, the Geoffrey Clark and Martha Fuller Clark Fund at the NH Charitable Foundation, and Great Bay Community College, Home for All hosted New Hampshire’s first Developer Roundtable. This collaborative effort, undertaken in partnership with the Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast, New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority, and Housing Action NH, brought together 24 private and non-profit developers to better understand the unique challenges they face in developing affordable housing to in turn, identify and amplify collective solutions and strategies to overcoming these barriers.

2022 With support from the Community Development Finance Authority, Home for All expanded the Affordable Housing Incentive Program on the Seacoast, moving over 110 individuals out of homelessness and into permanent housing on the Seacoast.

2021 Partnered with Home for All shelter agencies and local landlords to pilot the Affordable Housing Incentive Program on the Seacoast, moving over 47 individuals out of shelters and into permanent housing on the Seacoast.

2020 Awarded a $75,000 United Way Venture Grant to fund the pilot of the Affordable Housing Incentive program.

2015 Launched two Community Care Teams (CCTs) in the region.  CCTs are comprised of clinical and non-clinical service providers from 48 area agencies. The CCT serves frequent Emergency Department visitors and other vulnerable populations with complex medical and behavioral health needs (over half are homeless or unstably housed). The CCT seeks to remove barriers to care and improve the coordination of existing services.

2014 Organized and hosted the Community Summit on Homelessness and Housing.  The Summit brought together dozens of stakeholders, consumers and community leaders to further identify and prioritize opportunities to address homelessness in the seacoast.  One emerging theme/opportunity was the need to further coordinate care and services for those at risk of or experiencing homelessness.

2012 Developed, implemented and provided financial support for two years via an investment by United Way of the Greater Seacoast for a Coordinated Entry system for the service area, which includes a single point of access for those at risk of or experiencing homelessness.  The single point of access includes an assessment of the individual/family circumstance and need, and assists with the coordination of housing/shelter.  The Coordinated Entry system remains in place today and is operated by Community Action Partnership of Strafford County.

2011 Attended the National Alliance to End Homelessness Conference to learn about promising practices for preventing and ending homelessness.

2010 Commissioned a comprehensive needs and resources assessment around homelessness in the Seacoast.