Urban Initiatives will help coordinate homeless counts for the counties of Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and the City of Pasadena. The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) "strongly encourages" jurisdictions to conduct annual homeless counts as part of their Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Grant Programs. HUD mandates that the counts occur during the last 10 days of January which is only days away. Urban Initiatives has served as a consultant for each of these jurisdictions in the past. For more information contact Joe Colletti, PhD at joecolletti@urban-initiatives.org.

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES IN PROGRESS:
Urban Initiatives is serving as a consultant for other community-based activities which include:

> "Human Trafficking in Southern California" which is a joint effort with Oasis USA, the Western U.S. Office for Stop the Traffik and the Office for Urban Initiatives at Fuller Theological Seminary. Through this partnership, a survey will be completed that will describe the needs of women and men who have been trafficked into Southern California from Asian countries. For more information contact Joe Colletti, PhD at joecolletti@urban-initiatives.org or Sofia Herrera, PhD at sofiaherrera@urban-initiatives.org or call 626.304.3753.
 
> "Homeless Assessment for Simi Valley, CA" which is a joint effort with the City of Simi Valley which will note gaps in homeless services and provide recommendations to fill such gaps. For more information contact Joe Colletti, PhD at joecolletti@urban-initiatives.org 

> "Court-Clergy Conference" which is a joint effort with the Los Angeles Superior Court and Fuller Theological Seminary. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion of court procedures and processes that may be useful to clergy of Los Angeles County as they counsel their congregants. The conference will be held at Fuller Theological Seminary on March 4, 2010. For more information contact Sofia Herrera, PhD at sofiaherrera@urban-initiatives.org or call 626.304.3753.

 

Urban Initiatives has established several community-based and faith-based institutes that provide a wide-range of community research, education, evaluation, and development activities that include the following: