Please respond to the following questions and initial the grant agreement. The information is being gathered to meet reporting requirements of the Federal Community Development Block Grant program and the City of Toledo. Thank you for your participation. Upon completion, your grant funds will be issued.

"Chronically Homeless" definition for Question #6:

A “chronically homeless” individual is defined to mean a homeless individual with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter, or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than 90 days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter immediately
before entering the institutional care facility.  

In order to meet the “chronically homeless” definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least 12 months, or on at least four separate occasions in the last 3 years, where the combined occasions total a length of time of at
least 12 months.  Each period separating the occasions must include at least 7 nights of living in a situation other than a place not meant for human habitation, in an emergency shelter, or in a safe haven.

Chronically homeless families are families with adult heads of household who meet the definition of a chronically homeless individual.  If there is no adult in the family, the family would still be considered chronically homeless if a minor head of household meets all the criteria of a chronically homeless individual.

A chronically homeless family includes those whose composition has fluctuated while the head of household has been homeless.